South Korea recorded an additional 274 cases of nCoV this afternoon, bringing the total number of Covid-19 cases nationwide to 7,041.

The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) this afternoon announced the country had recorded 274 new cases, bringing the total number of new cases in the past 24 hours to 483 and the total number of cases nationwide to 7,041. . Of the total number of new cases, 390 cases were recorded in Daegu and 65 cases in neighboring North Gyeongsang Province, the two largest epidemic clusters in Korea.

The current number of cases in the two plagues of Daegu and North Gyeongsang is 6,133, accounting for 90.6% of the total number of cases nationwide, including 5,000 patients in Daegu. 63.5% of all infections were related to the branch of the Tan Thien Dia cult in Daegu.

Other major provinces and cities also reported new cases, with Seoul adding three more cases and Gyeonggi province adding 10 cases. A pregnant woman in Busan, the second largest city in Korea, was identified with nCoV infection from her husband being treated at a hospital in Daegu.

44 people, mostly elderly people with underlying disease, died from this disease. 36 people were in critical condition, while 118 were cured, up 10 from the previous day.

Concerns about group infection continue to grow when people in an apartment complex in Daegy are quarantined after a series of infections there. "Many people in the apartment complex were identified as relatively young followers of Tan Thien Dia. The apartment building has been isolated to prevent the emergence of new cases," said KCDC deputy director Kwon Jun-wook.

Daegu city government said 46 of the 142 residents of the single-apartment apartment complex were infected. 94 residents, including 46 people with nCoV, are members of Tan Thien Dia.

As of today, South Korea has tested 171,422 suspected people, of which 15,802 were negative. Health agencies have recently turned to civilian testing in Daegu due to the alarming level of community infection in the city.

Another alarming outbreak cluster appears in the southeastern city of Gyeongsan, adjacent to Daegu and the Cheongdo district of North Gyeongsang Province. The South Korean government on March 5 designated Gyeongsan as the country's third "intensive care area," after Daegu and Cheongdo.

Covid-19 has appeared in 97 countries and territories after its inauguration in Wuhan in December 2019. The epidemic has infected more than 102,000 people, nearly 3,500 died, mainly in mainland China.