SOUTH KOREA-SEOUL-COVID-19-CASES

SOUTH KOREA-SEOUL-COVID-19-CASES

(220216) -- SEOUL, Feb. 16, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People wait for COVID-19 tests at a makeshift testing site in Seoul, South Korea, Feb. 16, 2022. South Korea's daily number of COVID-19 cases hit a record high amid the spread of the Omicron variant of the virus, the health authorities said Wednesday. According to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA), the country reported 90,443 more confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, raising the total tally to 1,552,851. (Photo by James Lee/Xinhua)

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