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South Korea registers max Covid-19 cases in 3 months, delays vaccinations

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Seoul, Apr 8 (EFE) (Camera: EFE/EPA Archive).- South Korea confirmed Thursday its biggest rise in daily Covid-19 infections in three months, underlining the increase in the circulation of the virus at a time when the country has frozen vaccinations from drug company AstraZeneca.The country reported 700 new cases Thursday (674 domestic and 26 imported), the highest since Jan. 7, the Korean Agency for the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases reported.After South Korea registered daily volumes of between 300 and 500 new infections a day in the last two months, local authorities are attributing the increase in the last two days to an increase in travel with the arrival of spring.ARCHIVE FOOTAGE OF SEOUL

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