We begin with an update on the COVID-19 situation here in the nation. South Korea has confirmed 19 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday. Nine of them are local transmissions. So far, a total of 161 people have been infected from the Itaewon cluster of infections. That makes the total number of confirmed cases 11-thousand and 37. With two additional deaths, the death toll now stands at 262. Meanwhile, the number of COVID-19 patients across the globe has topped 4-point-5 million as of Friday. According to Johns Hopkins University, three quarters are from the U.S. and Europe. The global death toll stands at over 305-thousand.
