More than 36 percent of the cases are reported to be asymptomatic, while 'the rate of spread is very high,' Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon confirmed on Tuesday.
On Saturday, Park ordered more than 2,100 nightclubs, bars and discos in Seoul to be closed, while other venues were urged to enforce precautionary measures. On Sunday, Gyeonggi province and Incheon saw similar closures, the Associated Press reports.
He added"there's no reason to stand still out of fear," and said that the country had"the right quarantine and medical systems combined with experience to respond quickly to any unexpected infection clusters that might occur." Earlier this year, South Korea reported the highest number of cases outside China, where the virus was first detected. The country saw an explosion of infections in the wake of the outbreak, reporting over 500 daily new cases for several days from around late February to early March.
However, the nation began to see a dramatic drop in cases, with new infections starting to plateau from around March 12 to April 1. Daily new cases dropped below 100 from April 2 and below 10 from April 21, according to figures from the KCDC.
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