국내 코로나 '지역 감염 세자리 수'... 최근 2주간 '감염경로 불명' 환자 비율 25.4%<br /><br />Our starting point tonight: 113 new cases of Covid-19 in the nation. It's the 14th day in a row that that country has managed to keep that number below 2-hundred, but health officials remain on alert as the slowdown has plateaued.<br />What's even more alarming though is the surge in cases with unknown epidemiological links.<br />25-point-4 percent. That means for every one in four cases in the last two weeks, the transmission route remains untraceable. It's a new high.<br />Choi Won-jong leads our coverage tonight.<br />Over the past two weeks, more than 25 percent of South Korea's new cases have had unknown routes of infection, the highest proportion so far, which has the authorities concerned.<br />"Because more than 20 percent of cases have unknown infection routes, it seems there are many hidden infections in our communities."<br />Out of the 2-thousand-55 cases from September 3rd to September 16th, 5-hundred-22 have not yet been traced and are still under epidemiological investigation.<br />Since the 3rd of September, the number of local infections in South Korea has been falling overall, dropping below 100 for three days in a row this week, but it's now back in triple digits.<br />As of Wednesday, the nation reported 113 new cases.<br />Of those, 105 were local.<br />This brings the total number of cases to 22-thousand-5-hundred-4.<br />No additional deaths were reported, leaving the death toll at 3-hundred 67.<br />Due to the lingering cluster infections and untraceable cases, the health authorities are urging people not to travel and to stay at home during the upcoming Chuseok holiday.<br />Choi Won-jong, Arirang News.<br />
