[Photo] 'Another Tough Day'

As the number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) approached the 700 mark for three consecutive days, on the 11th, medical staff at the negative pressure isolation ward of the National Medical Center in Jung-gu, Seoul, returned to the ward after transferring patients. The Central Disease Control Headquarters announced that 689 new domestic confirmed cases were reported 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, and the second largest number ever recorded./Reporter Kim Hyun-min kimhyun81@

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