SEOUL (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 29th May, 2020) The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in South Korea has risen by 58 to 11,402 over the past day, the Health Ministry's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said on Friday.
Out of 58 new cases, 55 resulted from the internal transmission. The plurality of new cases, 20 ones, has been recorded in the province of Gyeonggi and Seoul each, while 18 more in the city of Incheon.
The death toll has not changed over the past day and stands at 269 people. The number of recovered people has reached 10,363.
The country has conducted more than 850,000 coronavirus tests.
A day earlier, South Korea registered 79 new cases of COVID-19 - the largest daily increase since early April - and no fatalities.
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. In total, the tally of cases linked to this cluster has reached 269. Separately, concerns are rising over a hotspot connected to a retail logistics center in the city of Bucheon, which is 15.5 miles west of Seoul. At least 97 cases have been confirmed to be tied to it.
The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11. To date, more than 5.8 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 360,000 fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.
