South Korea’s Daily COVID Case Rate Reaches Over 100,000 for the First Time, Fatality Rate Continues to Fall

Health experts had been saying they expected the daily COVID rate to surpass 100,000 before it started to decline. They were right about the 100,000 so hopefully soon Korea will start seeing a decline:

South Korea’s daily COVID-19 cases surpassed 100,000 for the first time Thursday, as the highly transmissible omicron variant fueled a surge of infections around the country.

According to health authorities and local governments, a total of 100,870 cases had been confirmed nationwide as of 9 p.m., up 10,642 from the 90,228 posted the same time the previous day, which was the largest-ever number for that time.

The total number for Thursday is expected to rise further as daily cases are counted until midnight and announced the following morning. (……)

The death toll from COVID-19 came to 7,238, up 36 from Wednesday. The fatality rate was 0.44 percent, the KDCA said.

Yonhap

You can read more at the link, but the fatality rate continues to drop when earlier this week it was .49%. Two weeks ago it was .69%.