SEOUL (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 02nd April, 2020) South Korea has registered 89 new cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), 261 people have recovered over the past 24 hours, the overall number of confirmed cases has risen to 9,976, the Health Ministry's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said.
The KCDC said the death count had increased by four to 169 people.
The number of recovered people now totals 5,828.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11 declared the outbreak of the new coronavirus disease a pandemic. According to the latest WHO data, more than 823,000 cases of infection have been registered worldwide, with over 40,000 deaths.
According to Johns Hopkins University, more than 932,000 people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 46,000 fatalities.
