COVID-19, 47,742 Cases Confirmed by 6 PM... 56.5% in the Capital Area

On the 13th, with 56,431 new COVID-19 cases reported, marking the fourth consecutive day of over 50,000 cases, citizens visiting the temporary screening clinic set up at World Cup Park in Mapo-gu, Seoul, are waiting to be tested. Photo by Jinhyung Kang aymsdream@

By 6 p.m. on the holiday of the 13th, the number of new COVID-19 cases approached 50,000.

According to the quarantine authorities and local governments including Seoul, from midnight to 6 p.m. on that day, the number of new COVID-19 cases nationwide across 17 cities and provinces was counted at 47,742. This is 283 fewer than the same time the previous day (48025 cases). However, compared to the count at the same time one week ago on the 6th (23,684 cases), it is about twice as high, and compared to the count two weeks ago on the 30th of last month (10,912 cases), it is 4.4 times higher.

On that day, new cases were 26,992 (56.5%) in the metropolitan area and 20,750 (43.5%) in non-metropolitan areas. By city and province, the numbers were: Gyeonggi 15,047, Seoul 8,903, Incheon 3,042, Busan 3,005, Gyeongnam 2,578, Daegu 2,349, Chungnam 2,129, Gyeongbuk 1,953, Gwangju 1,510, Daejeon 1,491, Chungbuk 1,413, Gangwon 1,021, Jeonnam 996, Jeonbuk 781, Ulsan 676, Jeju 494, and Sejong 354.

Since the Omicron variant became the dominant strain in Korea, the scale of new cases has continued to increase.

From the 7th for one week, the daily new case numbers were 35,281, 36,717, 49,550, 54,121, 53,922, 54,941, and 56,431, averaging about 48,709 cases per day.

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