South Korea has surpassed one million cumulative Covid-19 cases since the pandemic began, as health officials have reported a daily record of 38,691 new infections driven by an Omicron variant outbreak, Reuters reports.
Daily cases are nearly five times higher than two weeks ago when the Omicron variant began to dominate, but serious infections have remained at manageable levels so far, authorities have said.
Overall, South Korea has reported 1,009,688 Covid-19 cases, with 6,873 deaths.
