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South Koreans react to surging daily virus cases amid Omicron wave

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"It now feels normal getting Covid, and there's so many people testing positive that it's actually almost strange not getting infected," says one resident in South Korea's capital Seoul, as the number of daily cases in the country surpasses 600,000.

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