SEOUL (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 14th June, 2020) The number of coronavirus cases in South Korea has increased to 12,085, with 34 of them confirmed over the past 24 hours, the health ministry's Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said on Sunday.
For the past two weeks, the daily increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in South Korea has been within the 30-60 range. The latest situation report on Saturday stated 49 new cases among a total of 12,051, including 277 fatalities and 10,691 fatalities.
As of Sunday midnight (15:00, Saturday GMT), the death toll has remained unchanged and the number of recoveries has increased to 10,718, or 88.7 percent of the cumulative toll of cases, according to the center's report.
Of 34 newly detected cases, the KCDC said three had been imported, while 31 were of local transmission. Geographically, 12 of them were registered in Seoul, another 10 in the Gyeonggi-do province and eight in the Incheon city, both neighboring the capital, while the rest were scattered across the country.
South Korea has conducted more than 1.1 million coronavirus tests as of Sunday, as stated in the report.
