South Korea has recorded more than 600,000 cases of coronavirus per day since the start of the pandemic.

South Korea surpassed a new record for COVID-19 infection on Thursday when authorities believed it was reaching the peak of the wave caused by the Omicron variant.

The Korea Infectious Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) reported on Wednesday that 621,328 cases were found, of which only 62 were people from abroad.

This figure shows a 55% increase from the previous day's data and 120% more than a week ago.

Record daily deaths were also reported at 429 (the mortality rate was 0.14%), but the number of people with moderate to severe symptoms dropped to 1,159 in around 100 patients compared to Wednesday.

The Ministry of Health expects this week, or next week or next week, to peak the current wave caused by the Omicron variant, and said Prime Minister Kim Bucum asked that the protocols to reclassify COVID-19 as a less serious disease check.

This allows health services greater flexibility to address increasingly positive responses, which are cases with mild or mostly asymptomatic symptoms.

At the same time, the authorities have been gradually easing the current restrictions for some time, and a meeting will take place tomorrow in which a decision is planned to extend or relax the most important measures (forced closure of the hotel business at 23:00 and a meeting of up to 6 people).

The Asian country, where 86.6% of the population has a double vaccination schedule and a booster dose of 62.8%, is one of the countries that managed the epidemic the best, especially primarily, and currently has about 8,250,000 infections and more than 11,400 deaths.

(Including information from EFE)

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