The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) reported that 861 people were admitted to 220 hospitals nationwide for Covid-19 during the first week of August, the highest number since early February, according to Yonhap news agency.
Warning comes after Kim Yo-jong, the influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, claims "dirty leaflets and things" discovered in border region
South Korea conducts live-fire drills along its disputed western sea boundary — its first since it suspended a 2018 agreement with North aimed at reducing frontline military tensions in early June
This comes after Pyongyang launched hundreds of large balloons filled with trash and manure into South Korea and days after an unsuccessful military spy satellite rocket launch by the North Korean capital.