South Korea recorded 477 more positive cases of nCoV this morning, bringing the total number of infections to 4,812.

The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) today announced the country has 477 more nCoV infections, bringing the total number of nationwide infections to 4,812 and the number of deaths is 28. About 60% of the The infection is related to the branch of the Tan Thien Dia cult in Daegu, Korea's fourth largest city with a population of 2.5 million.

South Korea since the morning of 2/3 changed the time period to synthesize the day. The figures are published based on the number of patients up to midnight, instead of 9am daily as before. Health officials explain the change to give frontline doctors more time to deal with the disease.

So according to the data by midnight on March 2, the number of new infections in South Korea yesterday was 600, including 519 cases in Daegu and 61 cases in neighboring North Gyeongsang Province. Other major provinces and cities also reported new cases to the capital, Seoul, which recorded seven more cases.

Covid-19 originated in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province of China and now appears in 76 countries and territories. The epidemic has infected more than 90,000 people, more than 3,100 people died and more than 48,000 people have been cured, mainly in mainland China.

Covid-19 started in Wuhan in December 2019 and spread to 76 countries and territories. More than 90,000 cases were positive for nCoV, more than 3,000 deaths, mainly in China and about 45,000 people recovered. South Korea is currently the second largest outbreak in the world.

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