The total number of 10,738 Coronavirus infection cases are confirmed in South Korea as of Monday. From these total infection cases, 1,044 people are confirmed as imported cases. From the imported cases, 91.3 percent are local residents.
According to Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of new infection cases are 10 and the death toll stood at 243 on Monday. The fatality rate is 2.26 percent.
It is showing a downward trend of new infection cases as the number of new infection cases stayed around 10 for 9 consecutive days in South Korea. However, there are still possibilities of cluster infections as there is a new case confirmed as Coronavirus infections and this person went to a club where nearly 500 people were there.
There were 8 people confirmed as Coronavirus infection cases on 19th, 13 people confirmed on 20th, 9 people confirmed on 21st, 11 people confirmed on 22nd, 8 people confirmed on 23rd, 6 people confirmed on 24th, 10 people confirmed in 25th and 26th of April.
From 10 new Coronavirus cases on Monday, there are 1 infection case in Daegu, 3 confirmed cases in Gyeonggi province and 1 case in South Chungcheong province. Additionally, there are 5 infection cases confirmed through the airport quarantine screening procedures. From these new cases, 7 cases are the actual imported cases that are confirmed as Coronavirus infections.
47 people are newly released from isolation from full recovery from the previous day and the total number of 8,764 patients are fully recovered and released from isolation on Monday. 1,731 people are currently in isolation for Coronavirus treatment.
601,660 people are tested for Coronavirus and 582,027 people are confirmed as negative and 8,895 people are waiting for the test results.