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People wait in line at a Covid-19 testing site in Songpa District, southern Seoul on Sunday. [YONHAP]

Number of new Covid infections fall on week

Fewer people tested positive for the coronavirus on Saturday than a week before, in what could be a sign that the sixth wave is ebbing.

2022.8.21

People wait to get tested for Covid-19 at a testing center in Songap District, southern Seoul, on Monday, which was a national holiday in Korea. [YONHAP]

In sixth Covid wave, critically ill patients rise

Critically ill Covid-19 patients rose to 521 as of Sunday midnight, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said, the highest since April 29’s 526 critical cases.

2022.8.15

New infections yo-yo as sixth wave's peak nears

Some 55,000 people tested positive for the coronavirus on Sunday, a nearly 50 percent slump from the day before yet 1.24 times more than a week earlier.

2022.8.8

People wait in line to get tested for Covid-19 at a public health center in Gangnam, southern Seoul, on Sunday. [YONHAP]

Korea's sixth Covid wave might be smaller but longer

New Covid-19 cases topped 100,000 for the sixth consecutive day on Sunday as Korea's sixth virus wave struggles to peak.

2022.8.7

A nurse at the Seongnam Citizens Medical Center monitors Covid-19 patients inside the hospital's negative pressure ward on Monday. [YONHAP]

Covid infections on the wane, but critical numbers rise

Critically ill Covid patients continued to climb even as new infections fell below 50,000, health authorities said Monday.

2022.8.1

Jung Jae-hun, a professor of preventive medicine at Gachon University, speaks at a press briefing on Covid-19 at the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) on Thursday. [YONHAP

Sixth Covid wave is peaking earlier than expected

New Covid-19 infections in Korea appear to be increasing at a slower rate than in previous weeks, medical experts said Thursday, with a peak to the sixth wave expected in one to two weeks.

2022.7.28

Medical workers move a Covid-19 patient at Hyemin Hospital in Gwangjin District, eastern Seoul, on Tuesday. [YONHAP]

Thanks to BA.5 variant, new infections near 100,000

Korea’s daily Covid-19 cases soared to nearly 100,000 on Tuesday as the country enters its first wave of the pandemic without any major restrictions.

2022.7.26

People entering Korea from abroad line up to get tested for Covid-19 at Incheon Internation Airport on Monday. [NEWS1]

BA.2.75 makes its first known local transmission

Korea on Monday confirmed its first locally-transmitted case of the Omicron subvariant BA.2.75, nicknamed Centaurus, the most contagious version yet.

2022.7.25

Travelers get tested for Covid-19 at a testing center at Incheon International Airport on Thursday.[NEWS1]

Second case of Centaurus variant detected in Korea

Korea confirmed its second case of the Omicron subvariant BA.2.75 — nicknamed Centaurus — which is known to be more resistant to immunity than its predecessors.

2022.7.21

Workers put up a notice of a suspension of face-to-face meetings at a nursing home in Gwangju on Wednesday amid the resurgence of Covid-19. [YONHAP]

Nursing home visits stopped as virus wave grows

Bracing for a surge of up to 300,000 new Covid-19 cases a day, health authorities on Wednesday announced additional containment measures such as new testing centers and reimposing a ban on face-to-face meetings with patients in nursing homes.

2022.7.20

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