South Korea reported the highest daily COVID-19 tally for a Monday,… with 1-thousand 5-hundred 56 new cases.
Although it’s a slight drop from Sunday, this is mainly due to fewer tests carried out over the three-day Liberation Day holiday.
Of Monday’s cases, all but 63 were locally transmitted.
The greater Seoul area still accounted for the majority of the cases, but more than 42-percent were confirmed outside the capital region.
“Due to the holiday season, the daily average number of infections for the past week in the greater Seoul area stood at 1-thousand 77,up by 15% from the previous week. Regions outside the capital area also increased by 25.8%.”
Despite the overwhelming number of infections, the fall semester for most schools will begin on Tuesday with expanded in-person classes.
Instead of having all students take online classes, more than a third of all students in the greater Seoul area will take classes in person.
These classes will be available for first and second-grade elementary students, as well as high school seniors.
Middle schools and high schools for first and second grades will open at about one-third and half the total capacity, respectively.
Other elementary school students, including those in third to sixth grade, will take online classes at home.
More students can go to school in other regions under social distancing level three.
On the vaccination front, people aged 50 to 54 started receiving their first doses from Monday.
Starting 8 P.M., vaccine reservations will open for those aged 18 to 49, whose birth date ends with the number “6”.
And on Tuesday, South Korea will distribute another 1.1 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, produced at an SK bioscience production facility in Andong.
Choi Min-jung, Arirang News.
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