Women take a walk at a cosmos field planted in a parking lot, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Goyang, South Korea, September 28, 2020. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea appealed on Tuesday for strict social-distancing despite a slight fall in the number of its new coronavirus cases, with millions of people set to travel for a major holiday.
The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) reported 39 new infections as of Monday midnight, which marks a fifth day of double-digit rises. It brought South Korea's total infections to 23,699, with 407 deaths.
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