Daily COVID-19 cases have bounced back to the two-thousands after the tally hovered below the mark for six days. 

The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency(KDCA) said on Wednesday that two-thousand-50 cases were confirmed throughout Tuesday, bringing the total caseload to 265-thousand-423. 

The new figure is 453 more cases than the previous day and marks the sixth time the daily tally has exceeded two-thousand since the pandemic began. The last was September 1 when the figure hit two-thousand-24. 

Among the latest cases, two-thousand-14 were locally transmitted infections, while 36 were foreign imports.

By region, the Seoul metropolitan area reported one-thousand-476 domestic cases, a record high. The previous was one-thousand-415 reported last Wednesday. 

This accounts for 73-point-three percent of all local infections, with Seoul registering 665 cases and Gyeonggi Province 691. Non-capital regions totaled 538 cases, accounting for 26-point-seven percent.

Four more people died of the virus, raising the death toll to two-thousand-334.

The nation’s fatality rate stands at zero-point-88 percent, while the number of critically ill patients jumped by 23 from the previous day to 387.