12,000 COVID-19 Cases Confirmed by 9 AM... Twice as Many as a Week Ago

The Central Disease Control Headquarters of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency announced that as of midnight on the 10th, 20,410 new COVID-19 cases have been reported. On the same day, the screening clinic set up at Jung-gu Public Health Center in Seoul was crowded with citizens and foreigners seeking testing. Photo by Moon Honam munonam@

[Asia Economy Reporter Choi Dae-yeol] As of 9 PM on the 10th, more than 12,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases have been reported nationwide.

According to a report by Yonhap News aggregating patient management data from Seoul and other local governments, 12,213 people were confirmed positive nationwide from midnight to 9 PM on the same day. This is lower than the 19,842 cases recorded at the same time the previous day, which is attributed to a decrease in testing over the weekend.

Compared to a week ago, the number has roughly doubled. The count at the same time on the 3rd of this month was 5,880. Compared to two weeks ago on the 26th of last month, it has increased about 3.7 times.

With the spread of COVID-19 accelerating, health authorities believe the possibility of a doubling phenomenon?where the number of confirmed cases doubles every week?has increased. They have recognized this as a recent shift in the outbreak phase and plan to announce quarantine and medical measures on the 13th in preparation for a resurgence.

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