Coronavirus Disease-19: The First 7,755 Cases in the Republic of Korea
Open Access
- 30 April 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency in Osong Public Health and Research Perspectives
- Vol. 11 (2), 85-90
- https://doi.org/10.24171/j.phrp.2020.11.2.05
Abstract
We report the first 7,755 patients with confirmed COVID-19 in Korea as of March 12th, 2020. A total of 66 deaths have been recorded, giving a case fatality proportion of 0.9%. Older people, and those with comorbidities were at a higher risk of a fatal outcome. The highest number of cases of COVID-19 were in Daegu, followed by Gyeongbuk. This summary may help to understand the disease dynamics in the early phase of the COVID-19 outbreaks, and may therefore, guide future public health measures. (c) 2020 Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).Keywords
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