China News Service, March 22. According to Yonhap News Agency, South Korea's Central Epidemic Prevention and Countermeasures Headquarters reported on the 22nd that as of 0:00 that day, South Korea had added 353,980 new confirmed cases of new crown compared with 0:00 the previous day, with a total of 9,936,540 confirmed cases.
Data map: A citizen is entering a building in Jongno District, Seoul, South Korea.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Xu
According to reports, the number of confirmed cases in South Korea in a single day increased by 144,815 from the previous day, and the number rose again to more than 300,000.
The cumulative number of confirmed cases is approaching 10 million, accounting for about 20% of the total population.
The South Korean government has predicted that the pandemic of the new crown variant Omicron will peak from the 12th to the 22nd of this month, and the confirmed cases will gradually decrease after the 23rd.
However, considering that the government has relaxed the limit on the number of people in private gatherings to 8 people starting on the 21st, and the detection rate of the more infectious Omicron BA.2 subtype strain has increased sharply, the peak time of the epidemic may be delayed.
The report also said that among the new cases that day, there were 353,934 community infections and 46 imported cases.
There were 384 new deaths, the second highest since the outbreak, with a total of 13,141 deaths, with an average fatality rate of 0.13%.
There are 1,104 critically ill patients, maintaining a four-digit number for 15 consecutive days.