COVID-19 533 New Cases Yesterday... 2nd Day Consecutive 500s

On the 28th, elderly individuals who completed their COVID-19 vaccinations at the vaccination center in Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, were waiting in the observation area. According to the COVID-19 Vaccination Response Promotion Team on the same day, the number of new first-dose vaccinations the previous day reached 640,000, combining 560,000 recipients of the AZ vaccine and 80,000 recipients of the Pfizer vaccine. This is the largest daily vaccination scale ever recorded. The nationwide first-dose vaccination rate, which had maintained the 7% range since the 7th, is expected to exceed 8% and enter the 9% range within 21 days. Photo by Kim Hyun-min kimhyun81@

As the spread of COVID-19 continues domestically, the number of new confirmed cases on the 29th recorded in the early 500s.

The Central Disease Control Headquarters announced that as of midnight on that day, there were 533 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, bringing the total to 139,431.

This is 54 fewer than the previous day (587), marking two consecutive days with cases in the 500s.

By infection route, 505 cases were locally transmitted, and 28 were imported from overseas.

The number of new confirmed cases over the past week from the 23rd to that day were 585 → 530 → 516 → 707 → 629 → 587 → 533 per day. During this period, cases in the 500s occurred 5 times, and cases in the 600s and 700s occurred once each.

Recently, the spread of COVID-19 has somewhat slowed, but with large and small cluster infections continuing not only in the metropolitan area but also in non-metropolitan regions, it remains an unstable situation where the scale of the outbreak could expand again at any time.

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