SEOUL, Mar 14 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korea confirmed 107 more cases of the COVID-19, compared to 24 hours ago, as of midnight Saturday local time, raising the total number of infections to 8,086.
The new cases remained below 200 for the third consecutive day, after recording 110 on Friday and 114 on Thursday.
Five more deaths were reported, lifting the death toll to 72. The total fatality rate stood at 0.84 percent.
A total of 204 more patients were discharged from quarantine, after making full recovery, pulling up the combined number to 714.
The Korea Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC), decided to update the data once a day at 10:00 a.m. local time from Mar 10, after having announced it twice a day.– NNN-YONHAP
