China News Service, March 13. According to Korean media reports, South Korea's Central Epidemic Prevention and Countermeasures Headquarters announced on the 13th that as of 0:00 that day, South Korea had 350,190 new confirmed cases of new crown compared with 0:00 the previous day, and more than 350,000 new confirmed cases for two consecutive days. .
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 data from the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the country reported 350,190 new infections on the 13th, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases to more than 6.55 million.
This is the second day in a row that the number of confirmed cases in South Korea has remained above 350,000.
South Korea reported 383,665 new confirmed cases of the new crown on the 12th, the highest number since the outbreak in the country.
The Omicron epidemic is raging in South Korea. The South Korean government previously predicted that the new crown epidemic caused by the Omicron variant will reach its peak before the 22nd, and the average daily increase in a week will reach 295,000 to 372,000.