SEOUL – SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea on Friday reported 39 new cases of the coronavirus as infections continued to spike after rigid social distancing rules were relaxed.
The additional figures released by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took the country’s total to 11,668 with 273 deaths.
The agency says 34 of the new cases were reported in the densely populated Seoul metropolitan area, where about half of South Korea’s 51 million people live.
The rise in infections linked to Seoul nightclubs and a large e-commerce warehouse was still far below the hundreds of new cases that were reported daily in late February and early March.