코로나19 신규확진 7일만에 10명대…어제 19명•총 1만1천37명<br /><br />We begin with an update on the COVID-19 situation here in the nation.<br />South Korea has confirmed 19 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday.<br />Nine of them are local transmissions.<br />So far, a total of 161 people have been infected from the Itaewon cluster of infections.<br />That makes the total number of confirmed cases 11-thousand and 37.<br />With two additional deaths, the death toll now stands at 262.<br />Meanwhile, the number of COVID-19 patients across the globe has topped 4-point-5 million as of Friday.<br />According to Johns Hopkins University, three quarters are from the U.S. and Europe. The global death toll stands at over 305-thousand.<br />
