China News Service, March 23. According to Korean media reports, South Korea's Central Epidemic Prevention Countermeasures Headquarters reported on the 23rd that as of 0:00 that day, South Korea added 490,881 new confirmed cases of new crown compared with 0:00 the previous day, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases reached 10,427,247.
The data shows that the total population of South Korea is about 52 million.
This is equivalent to 1 in 5 people in South Korea who have been infected with the new crown.
Data map: In Seoul, South Korea, medical staff test a citizen for the new crown virus.
Since March, the number of newly confirmed cases of the new crown in South Korea in a single day has hit a new high.
As of 0:00 on March 17, South Korea had 621,328 new confirmed cases of the new crown compared with 0:00 the previous day. This daily increase in confirmed cases not only set the highest value since the outbreak of the epidemic in the country, but also ranks first in the world.
The South Korean government originally predicted that the current round of the epidemic would peak around March 22, when the number of newly diagnosed cases in a single day would fluctuate between 295,000 and 372,000, but as early as the 12th, this data had already exceeded the forecast range.
On the same day, there were 383,665 new confirmed cases in South Korea, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases also exceeded the 6 million mark, reaching 6,206,277.
Korean media pointed out that considering that the government has relaxed the limit on the number of people in private gatherings to 8, and the detection rate of the more transmissible Omicron BA.2 subtype strain has increased sharply, the peak time of the epidemic may be delayed.