SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has reported 386 new cases of the coronavirus in a resurgence that could force authorities to reimpose stronger social distancing restrictions after easing them in October to spur a faltering economy.
The figures released by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency on Saturday brought the national caseload to 30,403, including 503 deaths.
More than 270 of the new cases came from the densely populated Seoul metropolitan area, where health workers have struggled to track transmissions in schools, private tutoring academies and religious facilities. Read more…..
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During an event with The Economic Club in Washington, Microsoft founder Bill Gates says that the federal government should help regulate technology firms like Google and Facebook and that if he were 20-years-old today, he would start an artificial intelligence company whose goal would be to teach computers how to read.
