Seoul City Reports 455 New COVID-19 Cases by 6 PM, 27 Fewer Than Previous Day

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Chun-han] The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that the number of new COVID-19 cases was provisionally counted at 455 from midnight to 6 p.m. on the 28th, a span of 18 hours. Among these, 7 cases were imported from overseas, and 448 were domestic infections.

Compared to the same time frame, this is 27 fewer than the 482 cases reported on the previous day (27th), and 6 more than the 449 cases reported last Saturday (21st). The total number of cases for the entire day was 569 on the 27th and 499 on the 21st.

The daily number of confirmed cases in Seoul has remained generally above 500 on weekdays for three consecutive weeks after soaring to 660 on the 10th. On the 24th, the highest record was broken with 677 cases, and the number stayed in the mid-to-high 500s for three days until the previous day.

Additional confirmed cases related to ongoing cluster infections include 5 at a restaurant in Gwanak-gu, 4 at a workplace in Eunpyeong-gu, 2 at a market in Dongjak-gu, 2 at a religious facility in Dobong-gu, and 21 in other cluster infections. There were 216 cases confirmed to have had contact with individual confirmed patients not managed as cluster infections, and 198 cases are under investigation for their infection routes.

As of 6 p.m., the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Seoul was provisionally tallied at 78,395. No additional deaths were reported during the 18-hour period, keeping the total at 581.

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