Authorities reported one-thousand-716 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday after the Chuseok holiday, remaining in the 17-hundreds for a third straight day.
 
The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency(KDCA) said that the infections detected throughout the previous day raised the total caseload to 292-thousand-699.

The daily tally decreased from last week when the figures hovered around two-thousand, but it's hard to say the spread has been contained as the fall is mostly due to fewer tests over the holiday.  

Among the latest cases, one-thousand-698 were locally transmitted infections, while 18 were foreign imports.

By region, the Seoul metropolitan area reported one-thousand-292 domestic cases, accounting for 76-point-one percent of all local transmissions. 

Non-capital regions took up 23-point-nine percent with 406 cases. 

Eight more people died, raising the death toll to two-thousand-427. The nation’s fatality rate stands at zero-point-83 percent. The number of critically ill patients dropped by five from the previous day to 312.