China News Service, April 27. According to Yonhap News Agency, data released by the Korea Statistics Office on the 27th showed that due to the impact of the new crown epidemic and an aging population, the number of deaths in South Korea in February reached a record high.

During the same period, the number of births also hit a new low in the same month since the statistics, and the total population of South Korea has experienced a natural decline for 28 consecutive months.

On April 18, local time, social distancing measures such as limited business hours for public gatherings in South Korea and limited members of private gatherings, events and gatherings were fully lifted.

The picture shows citizens dining at a restaurant in Mapo District, Seoul that night.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Xu

  According to the report, the death toll in South Korea in February was 29,189, a year-on-year increase of more than 20%, the highest level in a single month since statistics began in 1983.

  During the same period, the number of births was 20,654, a year-on-year decrease of 3.2%, hitting a new low for the same month since the statistics in 1981.

  Statistics Korea believes that the number of deaths is on the rise due to the aging population.

Coupled with the fact that February is winter, the new crown epidemic poses a direct or indirect threat to the health of the elderly population.

  South Korea's epidemic prevention department reported on the 27th that as of 0:00 that day, South Korea had added 76,787 new confirmed cases of new crown compared with 0:00 the previous day, with a total of more than 17 million confirmed cases and more than 20,000 deaths.