The Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) today revealed that in the past 24 hours South Korea has found 715 more COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of cases to 64,979.
The number of new cases is below 1,000 for the first time after a record 1,020 cases were recorded in the previous day, but South Korea still saw a 100-digit increase in new cases for the 59th consecutive day. Since November 8, due to group infection in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province. And infection from foreign countries
For the past week, the average number of infected people per day was 893.9.
Of the newly diagnosed cases, 193 were in Seoul and 214 in Gyeonggi Province.
For 43 more cases of infection coming from abroad, the total number of infected people coming from abroad stood at 5,539.
Meanwhile, 26 additional deaths have been reported, bringing the total to death from COVID-19. In South Korea it rose to 1,007 and the death rate was 1.55%.
The number of healed people increased by 932, bringing the total to 46,172, while the recovered rate was 71.06%.
Xinhua news agency reported that Since 3 Jan onwards South Korea tested for COVID-19 More than 4.43 million people have been given and found 4,180,631 people with negative results while 193,751 cases are pending results.
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