On March 9, local time, South Korea's Central Epidemic Prevention Countermeasures Headquarters stated that as of 0:00 that day, South Korea had 342,446 new confirmed cases of new crown than the previous day, setting a record for new cases in a single day since the outbreak, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases exceeded 5.2 million. .
Affected by the continuous spread of the Omicron strain, it took only 4 days for the cumulative number of confirmed cases in South Korea to rise from more than 4 million to more than 5 million.
South Korea's 20th presidential election was held today.
Considering that the number of confirmed cases on the day may further increase, it is expected that the number of daily confirmed cases reported on the 9th may reach 350,000.
(Produced by Liu Yinghan)
Responsible editor: [Luo Pan]