China News Service, May 11 (Xinhua) According to a comprehensive Korean media report, the South Korean epidemic prevention department said on the 10th that South Korea has added 5 new cases of infection with the Omicron subtype strain BA.2.12.1.
So far, South Korea has reported a total of 6 cases of infection with this mutant strain, all of which were imported from the United States.
A medical worker guides people waiting to be tested for the new coronavirus at a makeshift testing site in Seoul, South Korea, on March 17, local time.
The BA.2.12.1 variant was first discovered in the United States, the report said.
The first confirmed case in South Korea was a woman who entered South Korea from the United States on April 16.
Yonhap News Agency pointed out that the spread of BA.2 is 30% faster than that of Omicron, while the spread of BA.2.12.1 is more than 20% faster than that of BA.2.
South Korea's Central Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters reported on the 11th that as of 0:00 that day, South Korea had 43,925 new confirmed cases of new crowns and 29 new deaths compared with 0:00 the previous day.