신규확진 288명•지역감염 276명…일주일간 1500명 넘어-15개시도 발생<br /><br />South Korea reported two-hundred-88 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday.<br />This is the seventh straight day the country has reported increases in the triple digits.<br />During that period, in total, there have been more than 15-hundred.<br />Eum Ji-young has more.<br />South Korea continues to see a surge in COVID-19 infections,... reporting 288 new cases on Thursday.<br />Of those, 276 were local transmissions.<br />Seoul on Thursday saw 135 cases,... the most of any region.<br />Next highest was Gyeonggi-do Province with 81, while there were twelve cases from overseas.<br />"In the last two weeks, local cluster infections have accounted for around 68 percent of the newly confirmed cases. It's very important that we continue actively with testing."<br />New infections in South Korea have been in the triple digits since last Friday, and the total new cases in that time has surpassed one-thousand five-hundred.<br />There have been new cases in all but two of South Korea's administrative regions.<br />In Seoul, the authorities are testing everyone at a physical education center in Seongbuk-gu District in northern Seoul.<br />Of the sixty students tested so far, 19 have tested positive,... even though none of them showed symptoms.<br />They are students at 11 high schools across northern Seoul.<br />Four of those schools that have either started classes already, or will start on Friday, have switched to remote learning.<br />Eum Ji-young Arirang news.<br />
