South Korea Shatters Record High with Over 16,000 New COVID Cases; Fatality Rate Remains Below 1%

GIKorea | January 29, 2022 | Korea-General Topics | 3 Comments

South Korea has not reached its peak yet for COVID cases and this latest record will likely only grow:

A medical worker carries out a COVID-19 test on a man at a makeshift testing station at Seoul Station in Seoul on Jan. 28, 2022. (Yonhap)

South Korea’s daily COVID-19 cases reached yet another record high Friday, as the country grapples with the rapid spread of the highly transmissible omicron variant with a new nationwide virus response system set to come into force.
The country reported 16,096 new COVID-19 infections, including 15,894 local cases, raising the total to 793,582, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said.
The daily count broke the record for the fourth consecutive day, spiking from 8,570 on Tuesday. The per day figures have more than quadrupled since Jan. 17, when the tally hovered around 3,800.
The death toll from COVID-19 came to 6,678, up 24 from Thursday. The fatality rate stood at 0.84 percent.
Yonhap

You can read more at the link, but the fatality rate is remaining very low and the .84% number is probably even lower when taking into account the new of COVID cases that are not detected in the population.