SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea will face another wave of coronavirus infections, with as many as 800 new cases a day by July, if the government does not introduce stricter social distancing guidelines, a prominent infectious disease specialist has warned.
FILE PHOTO: A water park employee looks on in Yongin, South Korea, as measures to avoid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continue, June 5, 2020. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
The warning comes after the health authorities on Friday extended prevention and sanitation guidelines to protect against the coronavirus until daily new infections drop to single digits.
Ki Moran, a professor of cancer control and population health at the National Cancer Center, used mathematical modelling based on a snapshot of June 11 – where each infected person is estima