The cumulative number of confirmed cases has exceeded 30 million in the three years since the first corona19 patient came out in Korea.
The Central Defense Countermeasures Headquarters announced that as of 0:00 today (23rd), the number of corona19 confirmed cases increased by 9,227, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases was 30,8756.
It has been 3 years and 3 days since the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Korea on January 20, 2020.
During this period, 3 out of 5 Koreans were diagnosed with COVID-19.
It was recently confirmed by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's antibody positive rate that 3.5 out of 5 people have a history of infection, including unconfirmed infected people who are not included in official statistics.
According to the statistics site Worldometer, Korea is the seventh country in the world to exceed 30 million confirmed cases since the outbreak of Corona 19.
The cumulative death toll is 33,235, ranking 34th worldwide.
As of 0:00 today, 9,227 new confirmed cases are the lowest number in 105 days since 8,973 on October 10th.
The decline continued, with 7,000 people from the previous day and 4,900 people from the 16th, a week ago.
It is also the first time in 105 days that the daily number of new confirmed cases has fallen below 10,000.
The number of severely ill patients hospitalized was 450, down 10 from the previous day, and the number of deaths was 26, with a cumulative fatality rate of 0.11%.