More than two-thousand new COVID-19 cases were reported for the second consecutive day a little over a week ahead of the Chuseok holiday. 

The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency(KDCA) said on Thursday that two-thousand-49 cases were confirmed throughout Wednesday, bringing the total caseload to 267-thousand-470. 

It marks the seventh time the daily tally has exceeded two-thousand since the pandemic began. 

Among the latest cases, two-thousand-18 were locally transmitted infections, while 31 were foreign imports.

By region, the Seoul metropolitan area reported one-thousand-407 domestic cases, accounting for 69-point-seven percent of such cases. The tally remained above 14-hundred for the second day. 

Non-capital regions added 611 cases, accounting for 30-point-three percent.

Nine more people died of the virus, raising the death toll to two-thousand-343. The nation’s fatality rate stands at zero-point-88 percent. The number of critically ill patients dropped by 21 from the previous day to 366.