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Coronavirus: South Korea sees surge in suicide rate among young women during the Covid-19 pandemic | South China Morning Post

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South Korea has seen a rise in the number of young women taking their own lives since the Covid-19 pandemic began to sweep across the country. National Police Agency data shows a more than 40 per cent rise in suicides among women in their 20s between January and June 2020, compared with the same period in 2019, an i…

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