China News Service, March 12. According to Korean media reports, South Korea's Central Epidemic Prevention and Countermeasures Headquarters reported on the 12th that as of 0:00 that day, South Korea added 383,665 new confirmed cases of new crown compared to 0:00 the previous day, setting the highest value since the outbreak in the country. .
On January 26, local time, outside the testing point in front of the city hall in Seoul, South Korea, people line up for nucleic acid testing.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Xu
According to the report, the South Korean government predicts that the new crown epidemic caused by the Omicron variant will reach its peak before the 22nd, when the average daily increase in a week will reach 295,000 to 372,000.
However, the single-day new cases reported that day have exceeded the peak of the government's forecast.
In addition, South Korea added 269 new deaths from the new crown, and the number of single-day deaths hit a record high for several days.
The cumulative number of deaths has exceeded 10,000, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases has exceeded 6.2 million.