A record number of COVID-19 patients are hospitalized in Seoul as infections continue to climb in the metro area.

Seoul City said Saturday that 408 of the city's one-thousand-101 coronavirus patients are currently hospitalized.

Over one thousand virus patients are hospitalized nationwide and Seoul accounts for 37-point-seven percent of this total.

Seoul has reported four coronavirus deaths to date while nearly 700 patients have recovered and been discharged from hospital.