SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: South Korea will raise coronavirus curbs to their highest level in the Seoul metropolitan area, the country's prime minister said on Friday, warning a record spike in new cases had reached "maximum crisis level."
SURGE IN SEOUL Workers unload a batch of 700,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine sent by Israel, part of a vaccine swap between the two countries with Seoul to return the same number in coming months, at the Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, on July 7, 2021. AFP PHOTO
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: South Korea will raise coronavirus curbs to their highest level in the Seoul metropolitan area, the country's prime minister said on Friday, warning a record spike in new cases had reached "maximum crisis level."