438 Confirmed Cases in Seoul by 9 PM... Highest Monday Count This Year

As the government sets a goal to raise the first-dose vaccination rate to 70% by Chuseok, citizens who received the vaccine are waiting in the adverse reaction monitoring area at the vaccination center set up at Chungmu Sports Center in Jung-gu, Seoul, on the 30th. According to the COVID-19 Vaccination Response Promotion Team on the day, the total number of people who have received the first dose of the vaccine is 28,641,079, accounting for 55.8% of the total population. Photo by Moon Honam munonam@

[Asia Economy Reporter Hwang Yoon-joo] Seoul city announced that from midnight to 9 p.m. on Monday the 30th, a total of 438 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 were tentatively counted over 21 hours. Among them, 3 cases were imported from overseas, and the remaining 425 were domestic cases.

The tentative count by 9 p.m. on this day is 2 cases higher than the highest Monday record this year (436 cases on the 23rd).

Compared to the same time frame, it is 18 cases more than the previous day (29th) with 420 cases, and 8 cases more than last Monday (23rd) with 430 cases.

As of 9 p.m. on the 30th, the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Seoul was tentatively counted at 79,337. The final total number of confirmed cases for the day will be compiled based on midnight on the 31st and announced in the morning.

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