SEOUL, 19 Jul — RIA Novosti. South Korea for the first time since mid-February registered only eight cases of infection with coronavirus COVID-19 per day, said the organization of the Centers for control and disease prevention (KCDC) under the Ministry of health of the country.
According to KCDC 00.00 Sunday (Saturday 18.00 GMT), five of them imported from abroad and three local origin. Geographically the two cases discovered in Seoul and two in Daegu and one in Incheon and the province of Gyeongsangbuk-Do. The remaining two recorded at the quarantine inspection.
the Total number of infections rose to 10 661, recovered another 105 people.
Earlier, South Korea raised the level of epidemiological threats to higher education. Until April 19, the residents were asked not to leave their homes, closed sports, entertainment and religious institutions.
In the 15 April parliamentary elections, many people took to the streets, but all citizens through the media and the message on the phone called to wear a mask on the way to the polls, to disinfect the hands and keep your distance with people. Quarantine service announced that it will be hard to follow, will increase the daily number of cases after the elections.
For the past day was discharged from hospital 105 people, the total number of recovered rose to 8042, which is more than 74%. Tests 12 243 people yet, only South Korea has conducted more than 536 thousand tests for coronavirus. At least 173 people have registered for the presence of virus in the body after they have recovered and were discharged. KCDC is investigating the possible causes of repeated detection of coronavirus.
he Killed two more people, the total number of victims is 234, while 161 of them died in Daegu, 51 in the province of Gyeongsangbuk-Do, 14 — in Gyeonggi province. Two died in Seoul and Gangwon province, three in Busan. Another victim in Ulsan.
the Total number of infected in Seoul reached 624, in Taegu – 6832 man, 1359 contracted in the province of Gyeongsangbuk-Do, another 654 people in Gyeonggi province. In Busan, only 130 cases. Over 5.2 million people (48.9 per cent) among all the infected are connected with the sect of “Sinchonri”. All in all, with the collective infections in the country are connected to 81.1% of cases. At least 998 cases were brought from abroad.
Although daily gain of infected in the country continues to steadily decline, quarantine service of South Korea noted the relatively large number of cases of contamination from an unknown source. As reported by KCDC, over the past two weeks, doctors were unable to trace the cause of infection for 18 patients, which means that the probability of having somewhere unaccounted for source of the coronavirus. In this context, citizens are requested still to adhere strictly to all the rules of social distancing and the prevention of the virus to avoid new clusters of the epidemic.
Pandemic coronavirus covered almost all countries of the world. According to the latest world health organization, the number of infections reached almost 2.2 million, more than 146 thousand have died.
Current data on the situation of COVID-19 in Russia and the world presented on the portal stopmanager.of the Russian Federation.
