S Korea's total Covid cases top 10m as crematoria overwhelmed

South Korea's total coronavirus infections topped 10 million, or nearly 20 percent of its population, authorities said on Wednesday, as surging severe cases and deaths increasingly put a strain on crematories and funeral homes nationwide.

The country has been battling a record Covid-19 wave driven by the highly infectious Omicron variant even as it largely scrapped its once aggressive tracing and quarantine efforts and eased social distancing curbs...