outbreak at a prison in seoul the country rolled out its toughest ever restrictions this week robert bryant has more for us from the capital. many people this christmas morning woke up to the depressing news that once again the country has set this record of well over 1200 new route cases being recorded in a single day the news actually was broken by the country's prime minister at a meeting of the coronavirus task force here a lot of the this jump is being attributed to an outbreak at a prison here in seoul some 288 cases recorded mostly inmates but also some staff there that's in addition to a couple of 100 other cases that had already been recorded that the u.n. security council has approved a temporary deployment of more troops to central african republic ahead of sunday's presidential election there earlier women march to the headquarters of the un peacekeeping mission demanding a place for those tensions have fled ahead of the pole earlier this week rebels have captured a large town. syrian state t.v. says the country's ed defenses have shot down several missiles launched by israeli w

outbreak at a prison and seoul the country rolled out its toughest ever restrictions this week robert bryant has more from the capital. many people this christmas morning woke up to the depressing news that once again the country has set this record of well over 1200 new rig cases being recorded in a single day the news actually was broken by the country's prime minister at a meeting of the coronavirus task force here a lot of the this jump is being attributed to an outbreak at a prison here in seoul some 288 cases recorded mostly inmates but also some staff there that's in addition to a couple of 100 other cases that had already been recorded that the u.n. security council has approved a temporary deployment of more troops to central african republic ahead of sunday's presidential election that earlier women marched to the headquarters of a un peacekeeping mission demanding a peaceful vote tensions have flared ahead of this poll millions of americans will have to wait until after christmas for relief as deadlock continues over a $900000000000.00 code the $1000.00 stimulus package at issue i

members were accused of undermining efforts to try to contain the virus but our correspondent robert bryant joins us now live from the capital seoul robyn a christmas is quite a big deal in south korea and the country is under some very tight restrictions as yet how are people there feeling as these infection and does continue to climb. many people this christmas morning woke up to the depressing news that once again the country has set this record of well over 1200 new rig cases being recorded in a single day the news actually was broken by the country's prime minister at a meeting of the coronavirus task force here a lot of the this jump is being attributed to an outbreak at a prison here in seoul some 288 cases recorded mostly inmates but also some stuff there that's in addition to a couple of 100 other cases that had already been recorded there so around 500 cases at this one facility which is cause some alarm here we're seeing some of the prisoners inmates being moved to other facilities tightening up the testing regime etc but this comes as the restrictions have been ramped up across

new cases are being reported daily ski resorts and other major tourist spots will also be shot robert bryant has moved from seoul. it was only monday that the authorities in the greater seoul area announced tougher restrictions home to around half of south korea's population and choose day these tougher restrictions are going to be put in place across south korea and it comes as we have seen this bill let 3rd wave produce around up to 1000 new cases a day we've also had another grim milestone of setting a record for the number of deaths from covert 924 now these numbers might not seem large by comparison to other parts of the world but when you consider where south korea was even up to just a few weeks ago it seemed to be have this under control to have it beat so it is very concerning for the authorities there the worry is that when we get into this holiday period that they really want to try to deter people from having large gatherings so we are seeing a strong recommendation from the government that people do not meet in groups of private gatherings of 5 or more people now it's only a rec

increases of experts are warning if this trend continues the hospital system could be overwhelmed robert bryant has more from seoul. it is a concerning situation here in south korea this is the 3rd time in a month that we've had an increase in these restrictions and that is because we've been seeing over the same period of time an increase in the number of daily cases being reported now well over $600.00 new cases per day south korea has a 5 tier system in place and these latest restrictions that will come into force will put it at 2.5 it will mean things like further restrictions on restaurants are gatherings indoors also on transport for example on intercity trains and buses they'll be a 50 percent cap on the number of passengers meanwhile there will be no small spectators in sports venues once more and also private companies will be urged to have around a 3rd of their workers working remotely from home we also know that j. and the president of south korea has called on the military to provide more testing now south korea has been a pioneer of test and trace well it seems as though the system