▪ Record high 1,063 critical cases, authorities pledge 25,000 more beds ▪ S. Korea to come up with measures to ease burden of tax on single homeowners ▪ S. Korea's daily food waste 26% higher in 2019 than 10 years earlier ▪ S. Korea holds emergency meeting over Japan's Fukushima water release plans ▪ Russia halts flow of gas supplies to Europe, sending prices surging ▪ World News: U.S. population growth at lowest rate in pandemic's 1st year ▪ COPING WITH OMICRON FEARS ( Almost a month has passed since the advent of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. It has become a dominant strain in numerous countries including the U.S. and UK, while South Africa, where the virus was first identified, is now reporting a decline of new daily infections. Today, we delve further into how the contagious strain is spreading across the country, and how the international community is trying to cope with the Omicron fears.) #COVID19 #Omicron_variant #Omicron_spread #Variant_spread #Korea #Innoculation #COVID19_pandemic #Breakthrough_cases #Kim_Moonkyu #Alice_HyunKyung_Tan #코로나19 #오미크론변이 #오미크론확산세 #변이바이러스 #한국 #백신접종 #코비드팬데믹 #돌파감염자 #김문규 #단현경