S.Korea sets up checkpoints, 'bus walls' to block protests amid COVID-19 concerns


  • World
  • Sunday, 15 Aug 2021

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean police mobilised hundreds of buses and set up dozens of checkpoints on Sunday to fend off political rallies in the capital Seoul, as some groups pushed ahead with annual protests in defiance of warnings over the novel coronavirus.

South Korea has largely been held up as a coronavirus success story, but is grappling with a fourth wave of infection that brought more than 2,200 new daily cases last week for the first time, partly fuelled by the more transmissible Delta variant.

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