S. Korea confirms 19 new COVID-19 cases on Sat., death toll at 262

  • 4 years ago
코로나19 신규확진 7일만에 10명대…어제 19명•총 1만1천37명

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.