SEOUL (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 05th March, 2020) South Korea has registered 438 new cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) over the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of infected people in the country to 5,766, the South Korean Health Ministry's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said Thursday.
It said the coronavirus death toll in the country stood at 35.
A total of 47 coronavirus patients have been discharged from hospitals over the past day, so the overall number of people who have recovered stands at 88.
Earlier, South Korea raised the level of the epidemiological threat alert from "orange" to "red."
