South Korea has reported more than 18-hundred new cases for the first time in ten days, with little sign of the fourth wave of the outbreak letting up.

The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said Saturday that one-thousand-823 new infections were registered throughout Friday, raising the country's accumulated caseload to 209-thousand-228.

The daily count is the third largest since the start of the pandemic.

Of the new cases, one-thousand-762 are local transmissions and 61 are from overseas.

By region, the greater metro area accounts for nearly 62 percent of all domestic cases including 498 in Seoul, and 501 in Gyeonggi Province.

Three more deaths have been reported, bringing the death toll to two-thousand-116. The fatality rate stands at one-point-01 percent.

The number of critically ill patients has increased by one from the previous day to 377, marking the eighth straight day the figure has stayed above 300.