SEOUL, Mar 13 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korea reported a record high of 383,665 daily COVID-19 cases as of midnight Friday, compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 6,206,277, the health authorities said yesterday.
The daily caseload was sharply up from 282,983 the previous day, surpassing the previous high of 342,433 tallied on Wednesday, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA).
The recent resurgence was driven by infections in the Seoul metropolitan area, amid the Omicron variant spread.
Of the new cases, 80,437 were Seoul residents. The number of the newly infected people living in Gyeonggi province and the western port city of Incheon was 107,941 and 23,735, respectively.
The virus spread also raged in non-metropolitan region. The number of new infections in the non-capital areas was 171,477, or 44.7 percent of the total local transmission.
Among the new cases, 75 were imported from overseas, lifting the total to 30,206.
The number of infected people who were in a serious condition stood at 1,066, down 50 from the previous day.
A total of 269 more deaths were confirmed, bringing the death toll to 10,144. The total fatality rate was 0.16 percent.
The country administered COVID-19 vaccines to 44,903,107 people, or 87.5 percent of the total population, and the number of fully inoculated people was 44,428,431, or 86.6 percent of the population.
The number of those who received booster jabs was 32,064,014 people, or 62.5 percent of the population.– NNN-YONHAP
