Daily COVID-19 cases surpassed one-thousand for the third consecutive day and the fourth time this week. 

The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency(KDCA) said that as of 12:00 a.m. Friday, one-thousand-62 additional people tested positive, raising the total caseload to 47-thousand-515. 

Of the new cases, one-thousand-36 were domestic infections while 26 were imported. 

The greater Seoul metro area registered 757 cases, including 393 in Seoul, 300 in Gyeonggi Province and 64 in Incheon. Though the capital city’s tally slipped 27 from the previous day, it continued to hover around 400.

A large number of local cases are linked to a church in Seoul’s Gangseo District where a cumulative total of 192 infections have been confirmed and a church in Dangjin City, South Chungcheong Province, where 119 cases have been confirmed so far. 

Eleven more coronavirus deaths were reported, raising the death toll to 645. The fatality rate stands at one-point-36 percent.