Seoul Reports 1 New COVID-19 Case, Total 624... 246 Cases from Overseas Contact

Seoul City announced on the 19th that Mayor Park Won-soon attended a video seminar in his office on the 17th to discuss responses to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) with officials from foreign cities and companies.
The seminar was organized by the American startup accelerator company, Plug and Play Tech Center.
The photo shows Mayor Park Won-soon attending the video seminar.

The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Seoul as of 10 a.m. on the 19th was 624.

There was 1 confirmed case in Seoul on the 18th. The patient is a 36-year-old woman residing in Nonhyeon-dong, Gangnam-gu. Registered as Gangnam-gu case number 62, she returned from New York, USA on April 16 and took a designated taxi for arrivals to the Gangnam-gu Public Health Center screening clinic for testing.

This patient was first included in the Seoul city announcement based on the count as of 6 p.m. on the 18th and in the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announcement based on the count as of midnight on the 19th.

When classifying the cumulative 624 confirmed cases in Seoul by major infection sources, overseas contact accounted for the largest portion with 246 cases (39.4%).

By district of residence, Gangnam-gu, which has many returnees such as international students, had the highest number with 62 cases among the 25 districts.

Of the 624 confirmed cases in Seoul, 334 are receiving isolation treatment, 288 have been discharged, and 2 have died.

The daily number of confirmed cases in Seoul over the past week (April 12?18) were 8, 3, 5, 1, 1, 2, and 1, respectively.

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