SEOUL, Feb 20 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korea reported 104,829 more COVID-19 cases as of midnight Saturday, compared to 24 hours ago, the health authorities said today.
The daily caseload was up from 102,211 the previous day, hovering above 100,000 for the third consecutive day, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA).
The recent resurgence was driven by infections in the Seoul metropolitan area, amid the rapid spread of the Omicron variant, which became a dominant strain here.
Of the new cases, 22,100 were Seoul residents. The number of newly infected people living in Gyeonggi province and the western port city of Incheon was 31,326 and 9,188 respectively.
The virus spread also raged in non-metropolitan region. The number of new infections in the non-capital areas was 42,118, or 40.2 percent of the total local transmission.
Among the new cases, 97 were imported, lifting the total to 28,100.
The number of infected people who were in a serious condition stood at 439, up 31 from the previous day.
Fifty-one more deaths were confirmed, bringing the death toll to 7,405. The total fatality rate was 0.38 percent.
The country has administered COVID-19 vaccines to 44,799,651 people, or 87.3 percent of the total population, and the number of fully inoculated people was 44,300,433, or 86.3 percent of the population.
The number of those who received booster jabs was 30,457,286 people, or 59.4 percent of the population.– NNN-YONHAP
