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South Korea has recorded 58 new cases of COVID-19 and three more deaths amid continued outbreaks at hospitals and other risk-prone facilities.
The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said 41 local transmissions and 17 imported infections were confirmed in the last 24 hours.
The latest figures raise the national caseload to 25,333 and the death toll to 447.
Despite an overall slowdown in new cases, health authorities remain vigilant over sporadic cluster infections, which continue to pop up across the country as people have gradually returned to their daily routines under Level 1 social distancing guidelines.
According to KDCA data, over the past two weeks, around 14 percent of all confirmed coronavirus cases had unknown infection routes, while the proportion of cluster infections reached 26 percent.
The total number of people in the country released from quarantine after recovering from the virus stood at 23,466, up 98 from Monday.
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