Number of Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in South Korea Rises by 49 to 12,051 - KCDC

SEOUL (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 13th June, 2020) The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in South Korea has risen by 49 to 12,051 over the past day, the Health Ministry's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said on Saturday.

Out of 49 new cases, 44 resulted from the internal transmission. Twenty-nine new cases have been recorded in the capital of Seoul and 14 in the province of Gyeonggi among others.

The death toll has not changed and stands at 277 people. The number of recovered people has increased to 10,691.

A day earlier, South Korea registered 56 new cases of COVID-19 and one fatality.

In early April, the daily increase in coronavirus cases in South Korea dropped below 40, later stabilizing at about 10-20 cases. On May 6, it dipped to two cases. However, later, the authorities discovered a new cluster linked to a young man who visited several clubs in Itaewon and tested positive for COVID-19 on May 6. Since then, several more clusters have been registered.

The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11. To date, more than 7.6 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 425,000 fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.