Seoul: South Korea registered 497 more corona cases as of midnight Wednesday compared to 24 hours ago. With the addition of the new cases, the total number of infections to 76,926. The daily caseload was down from 559 tallied in the previous day, but concerns remained about cluster infections linked to a Christian missionary group in Daejeon.

Of the new cases, 102 were Seoul residents and 116 were people residing in Gyeonggi province. It also reported 18 cases from overseas, lifting the combined figure to 6,221. Eight more deaths were confirmed, leaving the death toll at 1,386. The total fatality rate stood at 1.80 per cent. Talking about recovery, a total of 538 more patients were discharged from quarantine after making full recovery, pulling up the combined number to 66,016. The total recovery rate was 85.82 per cent.

Meanwhile, over  100 million Covid-19 cases have now been recorded worldwide, according to an AFP tally on Tuesday, as newly-inaugurated President Joe Biden pledged to ramp up the United States's struggling vaccine program. With a consistent rise in cumulative recoveries, India’s Recovery Rate has reached nearly 97%. India’s recovery rate is one of the highest globally. 1,03,73,606 people have recovered and 14,301 patients have recovered and discharged in the last 24 hours.

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