S. Korea reports 282,987 new COVID-19 cases
South Korea has reported 282,987 new COVID-19 cases, compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 5,822,626, the health authorities said on Friday.
According to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA), “The daily caseload was down from 327,543 in the previous day, falling below 300,000 in three days.”
The recent resurgence was driven by infections in the Seoul metropolitan area amid the Omicron variant spread.
Of the new cases, 56,600 were Seoul residents. The number of the newly infected people living in Gyeonggi province and the western port city of Incheon was 72,420 and 17,457 respectively.
The virus spread also raged in the non-metropolitan region. The number of new infections in the non-capital areas was 136,403, or 48.2 percent of the total local transmission.
Among the new cases, 107 were imported from overseas, lifting the total to 30,130. The number of infected people who were in a serious condition stood at 1,116, up three from the previous day.
A total of 229 more deaths were confirmed, leaving the death toll at 9,875. The total fatality rate was 0.17 percent.
The country has administered COVID-19 vaccines to 44,893,814 people, or 87.5 percent of the total population, and the number of the fully inoculated people was 44,414,213, or 86.5 percent of the population.
The number of those who received booster jabs was 31,979,242 people, or 62.3 percent of the population.
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Xinhua
