SEOUL, Mar 30 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korea reported 78 more cases of COVID-19 compared to 24 hours ago, as of midnight Monday local time, raising the total number of infections to 9,661.
Of the new cases, 13 were found at airports. The country will force all entrants from overseas to be put under self-quarantine for two weeks, beginning Wednesday (today) midnight, local time.
Six more deaths were confirmed, lifting the death toll to 158. The total fatality rate came in at 1.64 percent.
A total of 195 more patients were discharged from quarantine, after making full recovery, pulling up the combined number to 5,228.
Korea Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC), updated the data once a day at 10:00 a.m. local time, from Mar 10, after having announced it twice a day.
Except for the first 31 cases, all the infections have been reported since Feb 19. Seoul raised its four-tier virus alert to the highest “red” level.
The total number of infections in Daegu, about 300 km southeast of Seoul, and its surrounding North Gyeongsang province increased to 6,624 and 1,298 respectively. It accounted for over 80 percent of the total.
The numbers in Seoul and its adjacent Gyeonggi province came to 426 and 463 each.
Since Jan 3, the country tested more than 395,000 people, among whom 372,002 tested negative, and 13,531 were being checked.– NNN-YONHAP
