South Korea seems to be breaking through a record number of events and getting closer to the peak of the wave.

Seoul, March 17 South Korea today broke a new record for COVID-19 infection and reported more than 621,000 cases at a time when officials believe they are reaching the peak of the wave due to the Omicron version. The Korea Infectious Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) reported today that 621,328 cases were found on Wednesday, of which only 62 were found from people coming from abroad. This figure represents an increase of 55% from the data of the previous day and 120% more than a week ago. Record-breaking daily deaths were also recorded at 429 (mortality rate was 0.14%), but the number of people with moderate to severe symptoms dropped to 1,159 in about 100 patients compared to Wednesday. The Ministry of Health believes that this week or next week will reach the peak of the current wave caused by the Omicron variant, and Prime Minister Kim Bukam asked to review the protocol to reclassify COVID-19 as a less serious disease. This allows health services to have greater flexibility to counter greater positive responses, which are cases with mild or mostly asymptomatic symptoms. At the same time, the authorities have been gradually lowering the restrictions for some time, and tomorrow's meeting will make a decision to increase or reduce the main measures (forcing the hotel business at 23:00 and a meeting of up to 6 people). The Asian country, where 86.6% of the population has a double vaccination schedule and a booster dose of 62.8%, is one of the countries that best manage the epidemic, especially in the first place, and today has around 8,250,000 infections and more than 11,400 deaths.