South Korea Surges to New COVID Record of Over 85,000 Daily Cases, but Fatality Rate Continues to Drop
South Korea is experiencing a huge amount of cases, but it is actually leading to a lower fatality rate as more Koreans recover from the virus:
South Korea’s daily virus cases surpassed the grim milestone of 80,000 Tuesday, as the highly transmissible omicron variant fueled a surge of cases around the country.
According to health authorities and local governments, a total of 85,114 infection cases had been confirmed nationwide as of 9 p.m., up 28,787 from the same time a day ago.
The figure was up 2.1 times from a week ago and 5.4 times from two weeks ago. (……)
The KDCA said the death toll from COVID-19 came to 7,163, up 61 from the previous day. The fatality rate was 0.49 percent.
The KDCA said the number of critically ill COVID-19 patients was 314, up eight from a day earlier, it added. The daily tally stayed above 300 for the second straight day.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link, but just two days ago when the daily COVID number was over 56,000 the fatality rate was .52%. Nearly two weeks ago the fatality rate was .68%.
Cases mean nothing. It’s always been hospitalizations and deayhs that matter…
How many of those fools standing in that line, in the cold have any symptoms what so ever? Idiots
Yesterday, Uri Friedman at The Atlantic noted:
“South Korea hasn’t proved to be the only resilient power in this period; other standouts include New Zealand and the Nordic countries.
Yet South Korea is unusual in that it has not only repeatedly suppressed the spread of the virus and kept deaths to relatively low levels, but also never instituted a full lockdown.
As a result, it has experienced much less economic fallout from the crisis than most other major economies.”
Good job South Korea.
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