id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1425 Portal:Current events - Wikipedia .html text/html 7627 994 66 South Korea orders schools in Seoul and surrounding areas to close from tomorrow until the end of the month due to rise of new COVID-19 cases, which has broke records not seen since the pandemic began. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announces that the country will impose a five-day full lockdown beginning on December 31 at 9:00 pm local time until January 4, as the new daily deaths hit a record 229 in the past 24 hours. The number of new confirmed cases in South Korea surpasses 1,000 for the first time since the pandemic began, bringing the nationwide total to 42,766. Namibia reports a new single-day record of 324 cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic to 16,097. Germany reports 568 new deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, the most since the start of the pandemic and bringing the nationwide death toll to 20,002. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1425.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1425.txt