SEOUL (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 04th June, 2020) The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in South Korea has risen by 39 to 11,629 over the past day, the Health Ministry's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said on Thursday.
Out of 39 new cases, 33 resulted from the internal transmission.
The death toll has risen by one person to 273 people over the past day. The number of recovered people has reached 10,499.
A day earlier, South Korea registered 46 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 6.4 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 385,000 fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.
