SEOUL (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 11th June, 2020) The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in South Korea has risen by 45 to 11,947 over the past day, the Health Ministry's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said on Thursday.
Out of 45 new cases, 40 resulted from the internal transmission. Twenty-one new cases have been recorded in the capital of Seoul, 16 in the province of Gyeonggi, and six in the city of Incheon among others.
The death toll has not changed over the past day and stands at 276 people. The number of recovered people has reached 10,654.
A day earlier, South Korea registered 50 new cases of COVID-19 and two 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. 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 7.3 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 416,000 fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.
