South Korea reported one-thousand-961 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday amid the continued nationwide spread of the virus. 

The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency(KDCA) said on Thursday that the new infections detected throughout Wednesday raised the country's accumulated caseload to 255-thousand-401.

The daily figure dropped by 64 from the previous day but still hovers around two-thousand. Of the new cases, one-thousand-927 were local transmissions, while 34 were from overseas.

By region, the capital area reported one-thousand-363 cases, accounting for 70-point-seven percent of domestic transmissions. The ratio posted over 70 percent for the third straight day.  

Non-capital regions added 564 cases, including 93 in South Chungcheong Province and 69 in Busan and falling under 30 percent of local transmissions. 

Eleven more deaths have been reported, raising the death toll to two-thousand-303, with the fatality rate at zero-point-nine percent. The number of critically ill patients dropped by 28 from the previous day to 371.