Men wearing masks to prevent contracting the coronavirus disease Covid-19 walk at an empty park in Seoul, South Korea, on Jan 25, 2022. - Reuters
SEOUL (Reuters): South Korea's daily new coronavirus cases exceeded 13,000 for the first time, data showed on Wednesday (Jan 26), while the government sought to revise its Covid-19 response to focus on the highly contagious but less-lethal Omicron variant.
The record of 13,012 comes just a day after the tally topped 8,000 for the first time amid a rapid spread of Omicron despite the extension of tough social distancing rules.
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