SEOUL, Sept 16 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korea reported 1,943 more cases of COVID-19 as of midnight, compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 279,930.
The daily caseload was down from 2,079 the previous day, but it hovered above 1,000 for 72 straight days. The daily average tally for the past week was 1,780.
The recent resurgence was attributable to cluster infections in the Seoul metropolitan area.
Of the new cases, 717 were Seoul residents. The number of newly infected people residing in Gyeonggi province and the western port city of Incheon was 652 and 137, respectively.
The virus spread also raged in non-metropolitan region. The number of new infections in the non-capital areas was 415, or 21.6 percent of the total local transmission.
Twenty-two cases were imported from overseas, lifting the combined figures to 14,049.
Six more deaths were confirmed, bringing the death toll to 2,386. The total fatality rate stood at 0.85 percent.
A total of 2,205 more patients were discharged from quarantine, after making full recovery, pulling up the combined number to 252,038. The total recovery rate was 90.04 percent.
Since the mass vaccination was launched on Feb 26, the country has administered COVID-19 vaccines to a total of 34,977,073 people, or 68.1 percent of the total population.
The number of fully vaccinated people was 21,168,093, or 41.2 percent of the population.– NNN-YONHAP
