Seoul: South Korea's daily virus cases hit another high on Sunday, exceeding 38,000, as the highly transmissible omicron variant rages across the country following a holiday season.
The country reported 38,691 new COVID-19 infections, including 38,502 local cases, raising the total to 1,009,688, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA).
The accumulated virus caseload surpassed 1 million today, two years after the country reported its first COVID-19 case.
Daily cases are feared to possibly reach 100,000 in the coming weeks following the three-day Lunar New Year holiday, which ended Wednesday, according to the local health authorities.
The death toll from COVID-19 came to 6,873, up 15 from Saturday. The fatality rate was 0.68 per cent.
The number of critically ill COVID-19 patients was 272, down three from a day earlier, the KDCA said, Yonhap news agency reported.
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