Daily COVID-19 infections surpassed two-thousand again after five days, marking the second highest tally to date. 

The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency(KDCA) reported two-thousand-155 new cases on Wednesday, raising the accumulated caseload to 241-thousand-439. 

It is only the fourth time there were more than two-thousand infections in a day, all within this month. 

Of the new cases, two-thousand-114 were local transmissions while 41 were from overseas.

By region, the Seoul metropolitan area accounted for one-thousand-369 local cases, or 64-point-eight percent of the total. Non-capital regions added 745 cases, including 102 in South Gyeongsang Province and 99 in Daegu, taking up 35-point-two percent of domestic cases. 
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Nine more deaths have been confirmed, raising the death toll to two-thousand-237. The fatality rate stands at zero-point-93 percent.

The number of critically ill patients set a new record for the second straight day, rising by 14 from the previous day to 434.