MADRID, 11 (EUROPA PRESS)
South Korean authorities have reported more than 2,000 daily cases of coronavirus on Wednesday for the first time since the start of the pandemic, despite imposing a series of restrictions a month ago to try to contain the spread of the disease.
The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) has detailed that during the last 24 hours there have been 2,223 positives – about 700 more than the previous day – and one death, bringing the total figures to 216,206 and 2,135, respectively.
The daily number of infections exceeded the thousand barrier on July 7 and since then has remained above it, a rebound attributed by health experts to the spread of the delta variant, detected for the first time in India, as reported South Korean news agency Yonhap.
Given this, the Government has ordered officials to take tests for the coronavirus on August 19, regardless of whether they have symptoms, if they have been in vacation spots on the occasion of Liberation Day, which is celebrated on August 15 to commemorate the end of the Japanese colonial era.
The capital, Seoul, has been under the highest level of restrictions for five weeks, while most of the rest of the country has been at level 3 – above 4 – for about three weeks, in an attempt by the authorities to contain the spread of COVID-19.