FILE PHOTO: A woman wearing a mask walks past a cosmetic store as tougher social distancing rules that have been announced on the last Friday continue, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Seoul, South Korea, August 31, 2020. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea posted a slight uptick in the daily number of its coronavirus cases on Friday even as infections from a church and a political rally that sparked a second wave of outbreaks ease.
The Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) reported 176 new cases as of midnight Thursday, which brought the total infections to 21,919, with 350 deaths.
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