South Korea scrambles to contain prison infections
Meanwhile, overseas in South Korea, authorities are scrambling to contain a cluster of coronavirus infections in a Seoul prison as inmates waved signs through barred windows pleading for help.
There were 1,050 new cases nationally as of Tuesday midnight, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said on Wednesday, bringing the total pandemic tally to 59,773 with 879 people having died.
A prison in south-eastern Seoul had 771 inmates and 21 staff infected, bringing the total number of infections linked to the facility to 792, Yonhap news agency reported, citing the justice ministry.
Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae on Tuesday visited the prison and ordered the separation of infected inmates from those who were not and the expansion of granting parole to exemplary prisoners, the ministry said in a statement.
Reuters
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