SEOUL: South Korea’s total coronavirus infections topped 10 million, or nearly 20% of its population, authorities said yesterday, as surging severe cases and deaths increasingly put a strain on crematories and funeral homes nationwide.
The country has been battling a record Covid-19 wave driven by the highly infectious Omicron variant even as it largely scrapped its once aggressive tracing and quarantine efforts and eased social distancing curbs.
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