SOUTH KOREA IS STARING AT HIGHEST COVID-19 CASELOADS IN PAST FIVE MONTHS

• South Korea’s daily COVID-19 count exceeded 300 on Friday.
• It was the peak figure in over five months, as locally transmitted infections continue to erupt in the Greater Seoul area.

The new daily case number reached 324, raising the total caseload to 16,670 as of midnight Thursday, according to the Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. To think of it, of the new cases, only nine w....