Covid-19 cases in Korea dropped to their lowest level in five months on Monday.
As the daily coronavirus count rises in Korea, nursing homes and hospitals are facing outbreaks among their most vulnerable patients — and are unable to send them to dedicated Covid-19 hospitals because they are filled up.
Korea is speeding up booster shots for the elderly, the sick, people in their 50s, soldiers, police and firefighters amid soaring infections and hospitalizations.
Eleven patients and workers at a nursing hospital in Yeosu, South Jeolla, have been diagnosed with Covid-19, including four who have already received the AstraZeneca vaccine.
A mother and son greet each other on Thursday through a glass panel installed to protect patients at a nursing hospital in Daejeon, a day before Parents’ Day in Korea, which falls on May 8.
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