SEOUL — South Korea on Wednesday tightened social distancing curbs across most of the country to try to combat its worst-ever outbreak of coronavirus after new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday soared past previous daily peaks to 1,615.
Amid growing concerns over the more contagious Delta variant and a stagnating vaccine rollout, the latest daily tally easily surpassed the previous record – last Friday’s 1,378. Cluster infections have spread rapidly around the capital Seoul and neighboring areas fueled by the Delta variant, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said.
Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum said from Thursday the government …
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