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South Korea is seeing record numbers of COVID-19 cases as 509,000 high school students were taking a one-day college-entrance exam at 1,395 sites across the nation, the Associated Press reported.
The annual exam, called Suneung, or the College Scholastic Ability Test, is considered crucial in college admittance.
Students were required to have their temperatures taken before taking the test, and those with fevers were sent to separate testing areas. The Education Ministry said that 68 infected students and 105 others in self-quarantine took the hourslong test in isolation.
The 3,292 new cases reported by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency on Thursday marked the second straight day of over 3,000 cases.
