SEOUL, Sept 11 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korea reported 1,865 more cases of COVID-19, as of midnight, compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 271,227.
The daily caseload was down from 1,892 the previous day, but it hovered above 1,000 for 67 straight days. The daily average tally for the past week was 1,759.
The recent resurgence was attributable to cluster infections in the Seoul metropolitan area.
Of the new cases, 656 were Seoul residents. The number of the newly infected people residing in Gyeonggi province and the western port city of Incheon was 560 and 131.
The virus spread also raged in non-metropolitan region. The number of new infections in non-capital areas was 469, or 25.8 percent of the total local transmission.
Forty-nine cases were imported from overseas, lifting the combined figure to 13,915.
Ten more deaths were confirmed, bringing the death toll to 2,358. The total fatality rate stood at 0.87 percent.
A total of 2,227 more patients were discharged from quarantine, after making full recovery, pulling up the combined number to 242,960. The total recovery rate was 89.58 percent.
Since the mass vaccination was launched on Feb 26, the country has administered vaccines to a total of 32,800,966 people, or 63.9 percent of the total population.
The number of fully vaccinated people was 19,823,479, or 38.6 percent of the population.– NNN-YONHAP
