Australia❜s ❝New South Wales❝, South Korea report ❛biggest❜ daily rise in COVID-19 cases

Australia's most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), on Thursday reported its biggest daily rise in locally acquired cases of COVID-19 for the year so far, as total infections in the latest outbreak neared 400. _{Thirty-eight new local cases were reported in NSW}, ^{compared with 27 a day earlier}. Of Thursday's cases, 26 were either in isolation throughout or for part of their infectious period, while 11 spent time in the community while they were infectious. Meanwhile, South Korea on Thursday reported its highest ever one-day number of new COVID-19 infections, as officials consider tightening social distancing restrictions. The 1,275 cases in the 24 hours to midnight on Wednesday, reported by the the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA), exceeds the number of daily cases reported at the peak of the country's third wave in December. The government warned on Wednesday it was considering raising movement restrictions to the highest level as the fourth wave was spreading rapidly, especially among unvaccinated people in their 20s and 30s. The rise of the Delta variant has also worried health officials. Authorities said on Wednesday the virus was spreading rapidly, while a growing number of highly contagious Delta variant cases raised new worries. Just 10 percent of the country's population of 52 million people have been fully vaccinated, while 30 percent have received at least one shot, the majority of them aged over 60. South Korea's total COVID-19 infections stand at 164,028, with 2,034 deaths.

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