S. Korea curbs to stay as Omicron causes 25-fold spike

SEOUL: South Korea will extend restaurant dining hours but maintain a six-person limit on private social gatherings as it wrestles with a massive coronavirus wave driven by the highly infectious omicron variant.

The 109,831 new cases reported yesterday was another record and about a 25-fold increase from the levels seen in mid-January, when Omicron became the country’s dominant strain.