South Korea's daily Covid-19 count hits another record high


A visitor getting swabbed for Covid-19 at a virus testing centre in Seoul on Jan 26, 2022. - AFP

SEOUL (Xinhua): South Korea's daily number of Covid-19 cases has hit a new record high due to the spread of the Omicron variant, its health authorities said on Thursday (Jan 27).

According to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, the country reported 14,518 more cases of Covid-19 for the past 24 hours, raising the total number of infections to 777,497.

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