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Covid reinfections remain common despite a general downward trend in the number of new cases.
Starting Monday, all travelers entering Korea will have to get a PCR test within a day of arrival as part of tighter measures to deal with the BA.5 Omicron subvariant.
Health authorities predicted Tuesday that new Covid-19 infections will drop below 40,000 a day in May.
Schools in the greater Seoul area reopened Monday for the first time in nearly a month, as the daily toll of coronavirus cases sunk to 70.
Some coronavirus patients in Korea who tested positive for Covid-19 after recovery ? sparking alarm about possible reinfections ? probably did so because the country’s sensitive testing procedure detected “dead” virus fragments within their bodies.
Korea JoongAng Daily Sitemap