South Korea reported one-thousand-817 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday amid the continued nationwide spread of the virus.

The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said Sunday that the new cases detected throughout Saturday raised the nation's accumulated caseload to 223-thousand-928.

The daily tally dropped by more than 100 from the previous day, apparently due to fewer tests over the weekend, but marked the largest Sunday figure since the outbreak of the epidemic in the country, replacing the previous record of one-thousand-728 tallied last Sunday.

Of the new cases, one-thousand-749 were local transmissions, while 68 came from overseas.

By region, the greater metro area accounted for 61-point-six percent of local infections at one-thousand-78, including 478 in Seoul and 505 in Gyeonggi Province. The figure stayed above the one-thousand mark for the fifth consecutive day.

Non-capital regions reported 671 cases or 38-point-four percent of the domestic total.

Eight more deaths have been reported, raising the death toll to two-thousand-156. The fatality rate stands at zero-point-96 percent.

The number of critically ill patients fell by 12 from the previous day to 374, but stayed above 300 for the 16th consecutive day.