Rate of Infection In South Korea Slows

The trend is that things are getting better in South Korea which also continues to feature a very low mortality rate from COVID-19:

South Korea saw another decline in its daily new infections Friday, as massive testings in the southeastern city of Daegu, the epicenter of the new coronavirus here, were nearing an end, but health authorities were ramping up measures to contain cluster infections across the nation.

The 110 new cases of the coronavirus, which were detected Thursday and marked the lowest number of daily infections in more than two weeks, brought the nation’s total infections to 7,979. 

A total of 177 patients were discharged from hospitals Thursday after they were declared cured, marking the biggest one-day increase so far and exceeding the number of daily new infections for the first time since Jan. 20, when the virus was first detected on South Korean soil. 

Thursday’s additional cases, which followed the 114 new cases detected Wednesday, were also far below the daily increases of 500 or more last week.

So far, 67 people, mostly elderly patients with underlying illnesses, have died in South Korea from the respiratory virus that emerged in China late last year, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said.

Yonhap

You can read more at the link, but if you do the math 67 deaths out of 7,979 people infected comes out to a far less than 1% mortality rate. The rate is even lower because many people likely had the coronavirus and were not tested and recovered from it.