SEOUL, Aug 11 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korea’s daily COVID-19 cases hit a record high, due to the continued virus spread in the Seoul metropolitan area, the health authorities said today.
The country reported 2,223 more cases for the past 24 hours, raising the total number of infections to 216,206.
The daily caseload topped 2,000 for the first time, since the country’s first case was found in Jan, last year.
It was sharply up from 1,537 the previous day, hovering above 1,000 for 36 straight days. The daily average tally for the past week was 1,755.
Of the new cases, 650 were Seoul residents. The numbers of the infected people residing in Gyeonggi province and the western port city of Incheon were 648 and 107 each.
The virus spread also raged in non-metropolitan area. The number of newly infected people in the non-capital region was 740, or 34.5 percent of the total local transmission. Seventy-eight cases were imported from overseas, lifting the combined figure to 12,552.
One more death was confirmed, bringing the death toll to 2,135. The total fatality rate stood at 0.99 percent.
A total of 1,983 more patients were discharged from quarantine, after making full recovery, pulling up the combined number to 189,506. The total recovery rate was 87.65 percent.
The country tested over 12.15 million people, among whom 11,451,927 tested negative for the virus and 488,067 are being checked.
Since mass vaccination was launched on Feb 26, the country administered vaccines to a total of 21,635,106 people with 8,062,980 fully vaccinated.– NNN-YONHAP
