944 Military COVID-19 Cases... Approaching 190,000 Cumulative Total

On the 17th, citizens waiting for testing visited the COVID-19 screening clinic at Gangnam-gu Public Health Center in Seoul. The Central Disease Control Headquarters announced that as of midnight on the same day, there were 40,342 new confirmed COVID-19 cases. This number is twice as high as that of the same day a week earlier (the 10th, 20,410 cases). Photo by Kim Hyun-min kimhyun81@

[Asia Economy Reporter Minwoo Lee] With 944 new COVID-19 cases reported in the military, the cumulative number of confirmed cases is approaching 190,000.

The Ministry of National Defense announced on the 17th that 944 new COVID-19 cases have been confirmed within the military. As of 2 p.m. that day, the additional confirmed cases were 665 in the Army, 82 in the Navy, 88 in the Air Force, 73 in the Marine Corps, and 36 in the Ministry of National Defense direct units.

The daily number of confirmed cases in the military reached four digits at 1,102 on the 13th, the first time in 42 days, and has since fluctuated between 900 and 1,100.

The cumulative number of confirmed cases stands at 188,458, with 5,944 currently under management.

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