Coronavirus: South Korea tops 1 million cases; Malaysia set to hit 15,000 cases a day

South Korea on Sunday surpassed 1 million cumulative Covid-19 cases since the pandemic began, as health officials reported a daily record of 38,691 new infections driven by an outbreak of the Omicron variant.South Korea saw its first confirmed Covid-19 case on January 20, 2020, and soon became the first country outside China to battle a major outbreak.An aggressive strategy of tracking, tracing, masking and quarantining helped South Korea to blunt that initial wave and keep overall cases and…

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