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Korea Kusini imerekodi maambukizi zaidi ya 13,000 kwa mara ya kwanza, huku Mamlaka zikionya Kirusi cha Corona aina ya Omicron kinaweza kuchangia hadi 90% ya maambukizi mapya katika wiki zijazo.
Visa 13,102 vimerekodiwa siku moja baada ya maambukizi mapya 8,000 kuripotiwa, na Serikali imesema itapunguza muda wa kujitenga kwa waliochanjwa na kupata maambukizi ya COVID-19 kutoka siku 10 hadi 7 ili rasilimali zielekezwe kwa wanaogua zaidi.
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South Korea’s daily new coronavirus cases has exceeded 13,000 for the first time, according to data from the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency.
The record of 13,012 comes just a day after the tally topped 8,000 for the first time amid a rapid spread of the Omicron variant and despite an extension of tough social distancing rules.
Omicron is likely to account for more than 90% of new infections over the next few weeks, with the daily numbers surging to 20,000 to 30,000 or more, health officials said. The variant became dominant in the country last week.
“Going forward, our top priority is to reduce critically ill patients and deaths,” prime minister Kim Boo-kyum told an inter-ministry meeting on Wednesday.
A new testing policy has taken effect in four designated cities on a pilot basis, under which only priority groups can take a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test while others should get a rapid antigen test first at a local clinic.
The programme will be expanded on 29 January to include some 256 state-run testing stations nationwide, and then hundreds of local clinics starting 3 February, Kim said.
The government has also cut mandatory isolation for people who have been vaccinated but tested positive to seven days from 10, as part of efforts to free up resources for serious cases
Source: The Guardian
Visa 13,102 vimerekodiwa siku moja baada ya maambukizi mapya 8,000 kuripotiwa, na Serikali imesema itapunguza muda wa kujitenga kwa waliochanjwa na kupata maambukizi ya COVID-19 kutoka siku 10 hadi 7 ili rasilimali zielekezwe kwa wanaogua zaidi.
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South Korea’s daily new coronavirus cases has exceeded 13,000 for the first time, according to data from the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency.
The record of 13,012 comes just a day after the tally topped 8,000 for the first time amid a rapid spread of the Omicron variant and despite an extension of tough social distancing rules.
Omicron is likely to account for more than 90% of new infections over the next few weeks, with the daily numbers surging to 20,000 to 30,000 or more, health officials said. The variant became dominant in the country last week.
“Going forward, our top priority is to reduce critically ill patients and deaths,” prime minister Kim Boo-kyum told an inter-ministry meeting on Wednesday.
A new testing policy has taken effect in four designated cities on a pilot basis, under which only priority groups can take a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test while others should get a rapid antigen test first at a local clinic.
The programme will be expanded on 29 January to include some 256 state-run testing stations nationwide, and then hundreds of local clinics starting 3 February, Kim said.
The government has also cut mandatory isolation for people who have been vaccinated but tested positive to seven days from 10, as part of efforts to free up resources for serious cases
Source: The Guardian