South Korea’s new daily COVID-19 cases rose to around 350,000 Tuesday, ending a downturn for five consecutive days, amid the fast spread of the highly transmissible “stealth Omicron” subvariant. AsiaNewsNetwork READ:
The number of critically ill patients came to 1,215, down 58 from Monday, the KDCA said.
The BA.2 subvariant became the dominant strain in the country by accounting for 56.3 percent of the total infections last week, according to the KDCA. The government has called on people, particularly those aged 60 or older, to get booster shots, as the proportion of infections in the age group has risen recently to stay above 20 percent.In a move to better support at-home treatment patients, the government decided to have more local medical clinics provide face-to-face treatment to them.
Currently, the government has designated 279 clinics across the country as facilities reserved for at-home treatment patients, but calls have grown for their expansion in line with the surge in total infections and the subsequent rise in patients staying at home.
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