How One Country Is Beating Covid Despite 600,000 New Cases a Day
- Death rate among lowest in the world thanks to shots, testing
- Continuing to test helps find cases at risk of becoming severe
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South Korea has reached two seemingly contradictory pandemic milestones: It recorded more than 600,000 new Covid-19 infections on Thursday, the most of anywhere in the world. At the same time, the country has one of the lowest virus death rates globally.
While anywhere else an infection surge of this size would signal an out-of-control outbreak soon to be followed by a spike in fatalities, in South Korea -- which is about the size of Indiana -- the picture is more complex.