South Korea reported one-thousand-90 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, climbing above the one-thousand mark after two days of hovering just below it.  

The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency(KDCA) said that the new infections raised the country's accumulated caseload to 52-thousand-548. 
 
Of the latest cases detected throughout Tuesday, one-thousand-58 were local transmissions, while 32 were imported.

The Seoul metropolitan area saw a total of 716 cases.

Areas outside the capital region reported 342 cases, the largest daily figure since the first wave of the epidemic in Daegu and North Gyeongsang Province in February and March. 

The number of critically ill COVID-19 patients has increased by three to 284, while 17 virus-related deaths were reported, raising the death toll to 739. The fatality rate stands at one-point-41 percent.