South Korea reported one-thousand-202 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, adding more than one-thousand cases a day for four straight weeks.
The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency(KDCA) said that the new cases detected throughout Monday raised the country's accumulated caseload to 202-thousand-203.
The nation added more than one-thousand cases for the 28th consecutive day since July 7.
Of the new cases, one-thousand-152 were local transmissions, while 50 were from overseas.
The capital region accounted for 60-point-five percent of domestic cases. The greater Seoul area reported 697 cases, including 307 in Seoul and 344 in Gyeonggi Province. It marks the lowest tally in 28 days.
Non-capital areas added 455 cases, taking up 39-point-five percent of local cases. The ratio is on the rise again, nearing 40 percent.
Five more deaths have been reported, bringing the death toll to two-thousand-104. The fatality rate stands at one-point-04 percent.
The number of critically ill patients has risen by five from the previous day to 331.