New COVID-19 cases in South Korea becoming harder to track

South Korea has reported 45 new cases of COVID-19, all but two of them in the greater capital area, continuing a week-long resurgence that health authorities fear will develop into a massive wave.

The figures announced by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday brought the national total to 11,947 cases and 276 deaths.

The country has been reporting around 30 to 50 new cases per day since late May, mostly from the densely populated capital, where about half of South Korea’s 51 million people live.