SEOUL, Apr 22 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korea recorded 81,058 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 16,755,055, the health authorities said today.
The daily caseload was down from 90,867 recorded in the previous day, and far lower than 125,827 confirmed a week earlier, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA).
The health authorities believed the daily caseload is on the decline. Among the new cases, 15 were imported, lifting the total to 31,681.
The number of infected people who were in serious condition stood at 833, down by 13 from the previous day.
A total of 206 more deaths were confirmed, taking the death toll to 21,873. The total fatality rate was 0.13 percent.
The number of people who received two doses of COVID-19 vaccines was 44,532,083, or 86.8 percent of the total population, and the figure for those getting booster jabs was 33,043,900, or 64.4 percent of the population.
