코로나 확진 50명…지역 28명•광주 15명 최다<br /><br />Moving onto COVID-19, concerns are rising here in South Korea... as cases are piling up in other regions THAN the capital,... especially in the southwestern city of Gwangju.<br />The city reported 15 cases on Thursday,... the HIGHEST among local transmissions.<br />Our Kim Dami has more.<br />The city of Gwangju is shaken after a surge of COVID-19 cases.<br />Out of the 50 new cases reported on Thursday, 28 were local transmissions.<br />And more than half of those cases were in Gwangju.<br />The city has now recorded a total of 144 cases since the outbreak first began.<br />And more than a hundred of those cases have been recorded in the last two weeks.<br />The sudden surge in cases originated from an outbreak related to door-to-door sales businesses.<br />That has now unfurled into multiple clusters including ones at a religious temple and a sauna.<br />One of the new cases in the city is a 12-month-old infant who contracted the virus along with his family.<br />This is the first incident of a child infection in Gwangju.<br />Meanwhile, South Korean health authorities have discovered that just point-zero-three percent of South Koreans have had the virus.<br />In its recent antibody study on over 3-thousand citizens, just one person was confirmed to have antibodies for the virus.<br />"Experts credit the country's proactive virus testing and tracing as well as citizens' active participation in social distancing."<br />Out of the 50 new cases on Thursday, 22 cases were imported.<br />South Korean health authorities said that the number of imported cases is manageable.<br />South Korea's total number of COVID-19 cases now stands at 13-thousand 293.<br />With two additional deaths, the death toll is at 287.<br />Kim Dami, Arirang News.<br />
