Daily coronavirus cases fell to the low one-thousand range on Monday, the smallest figure since the fourth wave of the pandemic started in early July. 

According to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency(KDCA), one-thousand-50 new COVID-19 cases were detected throughout Sunday, raising the accumulated caseload to 343-thousand-445. 

The daily tally dropped by 370 from the previous day and remained below two-thousand for the tenth consecutive day. The figure has been over one-thousand since July 7, when it marked one-thousand-211. 

Of the new cases, one-thousand-30 were local transmissions while 20 were from overseas.

The capital region accounted for 77-point-one percent of local cases, reporting 794 cases. Non-capital areas added 236 cases.

Eight deaths have been reported, raising the death toll to two-thousand-668. The fatality rate stands at zero-point-78 percent. The number of critically ill patients dropped by three from the previous day to 345.