확진자 수도권집중 경향 뚜렷... 고령 확진자 우려<br /><br /> South Korea sees 37 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, with most of those cases coming from the capital region. A particular worry is the high proportion of cases coming from the elderly population... who are most at risk from coronavirus.<br />Our Kim Do-yeon reports. <br /> With 22 of South Korea's 37 new COVID-19 cases on Monday coming from local transmissions within the Seoul metropolitan area, the government is asking the public and businesses to actively take part in virus prevention practices.<br />The capital region has seen an average of 36.5 cases a day for the past two weeks.<br />The region has seen several clusters of cases such as ones linked to a door-to-door sales company, a senior citizens' home and a table tennis club.<br /><br /> "The more worrying part is the back-to-back sporadic appearances of clusters, especially because of the spread at facilities that the elderly use such as nursing homes."<br /><br /> Around 40% of the patients over the past two weeks have been more than 60 years old. <br />The government says this could cause the death rate to rise as elderly people are more vulnerable to the virus. <br />Health authorities have asked facilities for senior citizens to ramp up their measures to prevent the spread of the virus.<br /><br />"For nursing homes, please make sure to thoroughly check all new seniors moving in...and please monitor employees and current residents. Test anyone with suspicious symptoms." <br /><br /> In addition, there is a steady inflow of cases from people arriving from overseas. <br />Of Monday's 37 new cases, 13 were imported from abroad... the second day in June that the number has been in double digits.<br /> As for the total cases, the country stands at 12,121 as of midnight Monday.<br />With no additional deaths, the death toll remains at 277. <br />Kim Do-yeon, Arirang News <br />
