1591 New COVID-19 Cases in Seoul... Fourth Day of Increase

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Jun-hyung] On the 21st, as the spread of the COVID-19 Omicron variant continued, confirmed cases also continued to occur in Seoul.

The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Seoul on this day was 1,591. This is 40 more than the previous day, the 20th (1,551 cases). Compared to a week ago on the 14th (910 cases), it is 681 more.

The daily number of confirmed cases in Seoul showed a decreasing trend after setting a record high of 3,165 cases on the 14th of last month, and dropped to the 1,000 range from the 25th of last month. From the 7th to the 17th of this month, except for one day (the 11th), the number remained below 1,000 per day. However, since rising back to the 1,000 range on the 18th of this month, the number has been increasing for four consecutive days.

On the 20th, the number of tests conducted was 101,059, about 10,000 more than the previous day. This is the first time this year that the number of tests exceeded 100,000. The positivity rate (the ratio of confirmed cases to the number of tests conducted the previous day) was 1.7%, down 0.3 percentage points from the previous day (2.0%). However, it is 0.2 percentage points higher than the average of the past fifteen days (1.5%).

Among the new confirmed cases, 1,535 were domestic transmissions and 56 were imported cases.

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