A person is swabbed at a Covid-19 testing site at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, as the nation battles a new outbreak. Photo: Reuters A person is swabbed at a Covid-19 testing site at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, as the nation battles a new outbreak. Photo: Reuters
A person is swabbed at a Covid-19 testing site at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, as the nation battles a new outbreak. Photo: Reuters
Asia /  East Asia

Coronavirus: Seoul limits gatherings; Singapore receives first batch of vaccines

  • The governments of Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon city ordered unprecedented restrictions on gatherings from December 23 to January 3
  • Elsewhere in the region, Thailand has urged calm after 382 new Covid-19 cases, and Australia detected the new UK strain

Topic |   Coronavirus South Korea
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Updated: 12:18am, 22 Dec, 2020

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A person is swabbed at a Covid-19 testing site at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, as the nation battles a new outbreak. Photo: Reuters A person is swabbed at a Covid-19 testing site at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, as the nation battles a new outbreak. Photo: Reuters
A person is swabbed at a Covid-19 testing site at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, as the nation battles a new outbreak. Photo: Reuters
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