A visitor wearing a protective mask has his personal QR code scanned as he enters a Starbucks Corp. store in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday (Sept 4, 2020). Korea Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said that tighter social distancing rules have "clearly" helped bring down the pace of new infections, a trend that's likely to continue after the coming weekend. - Bloomberg
SEOUL, Sept 5 (Reuters): South Korea recorded 168 new coronavirus cases as of midnight Friday, posting the lowest daily tally in three weeks after imposing stricter social distancing rules to blunt a second wave of infections.
The total infections rose to 21,010, with 333 deaths, according to the data published by the Korea Centre for Disease Control and Prevention on Saturday.
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