SKorea hits new record in daily new virus cases

South Korea reported more than 170,000 coronavirus cases on Wednesday, a new record in daily virus cases. The number of new COVID-19 cases jumped from nearly 100,000 cases to 171,452 in a day."

The number of virus cases continues to show an upward trend, but the number of seriously ill patients and deaths are being maintained low," said Senior South Korean Health Ministry Official Park Hyang."The number of patients in a serious condition is 480 as of today," she added. South Korea has been seeing an explosive increase in coronavirus cases since mid-January when omicron first emerged as the country's dominant strain. In total, South Korea has had just over 2 million cases with 7,508 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.