The 'doubling' phenomenon continued over the weekend, with the number of new corona cases recorded at 41,000, the highest in 66 days, and the number of confirmed cases doubling.
The Central Quarantine Countermeasures Headquarters announced that as of 00:00 today (16th), the number of new coronavirus cases recorded 41,310, the highest since May 11.
Usually, the number of new confirmed cases increases in the early and mid-week and decreases towards the end of the week.
The number of new confirmed cases was about 2.04 times that of 20,273 on the 9th, a week ago, and the 'doubling' phenomenon, in which the number of confirmed cases doubled every week, continued.
The number of confirmed cases by region (including overseas inflows) was 11,448 in Gyeonggi, 9,457 in Seoul, and 2,617 in Busan.
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