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Seoul, Oct 15 (EFE/EPA).- South Korea announced Friday it would relax restrictions to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus due to vaccination increasing and infection rates stabilizing.Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum said meetings of up to eight people would be allowed in the capital region (where more than half of 51 million South Koreans live) from Monday after 6 p.m. so long as at least four of those people have been completely vaccinated. (Camera: ARCHIVE). ARCHIVE B-ROLL OF SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA. (Camera: ARCHIVE).ARCHIVE FOOTAGE OF SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.
World leaders met on Saturday to discuss preparation efforts to contain and alleviate the coronavirus pandemic in the next few months. Leaders from Germany, France, South Korea, and Argentina were scheduled to participate in the side event to the annual G20 gathering. According to Business Insider, the US has more than 11.9 million cases and 255,000 deaths from the highly contagious novel coronavirus. And despite making up the largest share of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths in the world, noticeably absent was President Donald Trump. He went golfing, instead.
Members and supporters of South Korea's main opposition Democratic Party (DP) cheer as they watch a broadcast of an exit poll after Wednesday's parliamentary election. The DP and a small allied party were forecast to win up to 197 seats in the 300-member parliament, the poll shows, with the ruling People Power Party and its satellite set to secure between 85 and 99 seats -- down from the 114 they held in the last parliament. IMAGES
South Koreans start casting their ballots in parliamentary elections seen as a referendum on President Yoon Suk Yeol after a polarising campaign. IMAGES
A South Korean news channel in a Seoul restuarant broadcasts North Korea related coverage after Pyongyang's firing of what it claims is a military spy satellite. North Korea's previous efforts to put a spy satellite into orbit in May and August both failed, and Seoul, Tokyo and Washington had repeatedly warned Pyongyang not to proceed with another launch, which would violate successive rounds of UN resolutions. Japan issued an evacuation order to residents in the southern region of Okinawa before rescinding the call after the missile passed into the Pacific Ocean just before 11:00 pm (1400 GMT). IMAGES
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken lands in Seoul, South Korea, where he will meet his South Korean counterpart Park Jin to discuss issues including nuclear-armed North Korea, according to Seoul's foreign ministry. IMAGES
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