South Korea PM says pandemic should not be feared as the deaths and serious cases are on the rise.

 韓国で新規感染１７万人超、過去最多を大幅更新…金首相「数だけで恐れる理由はない」

South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases surge to fresh high of over 170,000 amid raging Omicron

The Korea Herald/Asia News Network / 04:17 PM February 23, 2022

The number of critically ill COVID-19 patients came to 512, up 32 from a day earlier. The figure has been on a rise recently, climbing from around 200 cases early last week to over 400 on Saturday and further to more than 500 on Wednesday.

The death toll from COVID-19 came to 7,607, up 99 from Tuesday. It is the fourth-highest number of daily deaths from the new coronavirus. The fatality rate was 0.33 percent, according to the KDCA.

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The Korea JoongAng Daily said deaths and serious cases could rise if more than half a million people recovering at home were “neglected”. “Home treatment can hardly be described as treatment, because most patients must endure it without any prescription medicine,” it said.