Health authorities reported more than two-thousand COVID-19 cases for a third consecutive day on Friday, following the nation’s easing of social distancing early this week. 

The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency(KDCA) said that two-thousand-344 infections were confirmed throughout the previous day, raising the country's accumulative total to 375-thousand-464 cases.

The daily tally, however, dropped by 138 from the previous day. Of the new cases, two-thousand-324 were local infections, while 20 were from overseas.

The capital region accounted for 80-point-three percent of new local infections, reporting one-thousand-866 cases. Non-capital regions added 458. 

Amid growing deaths after eased restrictions, 20 were reported throughout Thursday, raising the death toll to two-thousand-936. The fatality rate remains at zero-point-78 percent.

The nation is also seeing a rise in the number of critically ill patients this week, with the figure jumping 17 from the previous day to 382.