South Korea reported one-thousand-729 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday amid the continued fourth wave of the pandemic.

The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said that the new cases detected throughout Saturday raised the country's accumulated caseload to 210-thousand-956.

The daily figure dropped by 94 from the previous day but remained above one-thousand for 33 straight days.

The latest tally marks the largest Sunday figure. The previous high was recorded two weeks ago, when it posted one-thousand-487.

Of the new cases, one-thousand-670 were local transmissions, while 59 were from overseas.

By region, the greater metro area reported 967 cases, including 441 in Seoul and 456 in Gyeonggi Province.

Non-capital areas added 703 cases, taking up 42-point-seven percent of local cases. The daily tally surpassed 700 after staying in the 600s for four straight days. The ratio also topped the 40 percent mark to hit a new high in the fourth wave of the epidemic.

Five more deaths have been reported, bringing the death toll to two-thousand-121. The fatality rate stands at one-point-01 percent. The number of critically ill patients dropped by one from the previous day to 376.