As of August 28, 2023, around 59.8 percent of the patients who died from novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in South Korea were aged 80 years or older. This was despite older people making up only a small percentage of all COVID-19 cases in South Korea. A fourth wave fueled by the delta and omicron variants led to a record rate of new daily cases in 2022, which once again began to decline in 2023.
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