South Korea reported eight more cases of the novel coronavirus on Sunday, bringing the nation’s total infections to 10,661, with the daily increase falling to a single digit for the first time in about two months, according to Yonhap News Agency.
Of the eight new cases, five were detected from arrivals from foreign countries, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
The death toll from the new coronavirus rose by two to 234. It was the first time since February 19 that the country’s new COVID-19 infections came below 20. After reporting the first case on January 20, the number of daily new cases in the country stayed in the single digits through February 18.
The figure, however, soon skyrocketed, centering on members of a church group in the southeastern city of Daegu and other cluster infections from hospitals.
The number of South Korea’s daily new cases reached a peak of 909 on February 29. On the back of the country’s all-out efforts to contain the spread of the virus, including rolling out social distancing measures, the number of new infections announced stayed below 30 from Monday to Friday and slipped to below 20 on Saturday.
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