Photo : YONHAP News Anchor: The daily COVID-19 increase in South Korea dropped below 300 for the first time in more than two months. While some businesses outside the capital region will be able to stay open an additional hour until 10:00 p.m. starting Monday, the government will decide on easing rules in the Seoul metro area after this week s Lunar New Year holiday.
Choi You Sun reports.
Report: The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency(KDCA) said as of 12:00 a.m. Monday, 289 additional people have tested positive for COVID-19, raising the country s cumulative total to 81-thousand-185.
It is the first time that the daily infection surge dropped below 300 since the start of the latest epidemic in late November.
Posted : 2021-01-08 10:17
Updated : 2021-01-08 10:17
A medical worker in a booth takes a sample from a man at a coronavirus testing site in Seoul, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. AP
South Korea s daily new coronavirus cases dropped to a five-day low on Friday on a slowdown in large-scale cluster infections, while authorities are tightening grips on foreign arrivals to block the inflow of a more transmissible virus variant.
The country added 674 more COVID-19 cases, including 633 local infections, raising the total caseload to 67,360, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA).
Friday s caseload was the lowest since Jan. 2, when the figure stood at 657 due largely to less testing over the New Year s holiday. The daily caseload hovered below 1,000 for the fourth consecutive day.