[Photo] Patients Improving Transferred to Infectious Disease Dedicated Ward

As the number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) approached the 700 mark for three consecutive days, on the 11th, a patient whose condition had improved was transferred to the infectious disease ward at the National Medical Center's negative pressure isolation ward in Jung-gu, Seoul. The Central Disease Control Headquarters announced that 689 new confirmed cases were reported nationwide as of midnight that day. This is the highest number in 286 days since the 909 cases recorded during the first major outbreak centered in the Daegu and Gyeongbuk regions, making it the second largest number ever recorded./Reporter Kim Hyun-min kimhyun81@

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