SEOUL (XINHUA) – South Korea confirmed a total of 3,128 “breakthrough” COVID-19 infections, which refer to people who tested positive after a full vaccination. Meanwhile, the country reported 3,455 more cases of COVID-19 variants for the past week, the health authorities said yesterday.
The new cases of COVID-19 variants brought the total number of such cases to 20,297.
Among the new cases found since August 22, 327 were imported from overseas while the remaining 3,128 were locally transmitted, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA).
The far higher number of local transmissions indicated the domestic spread of the variants.
Of the new cases, 3,427 came from the Delta variant, 27 from Alpha and one from Beta.
Among the combined cases involving the variants, 16,881 stemmed from the Delta variant, 3,244 from Alpha, 150 from Beta and 22 from Gamma.
The four variants are believed to be more transmissible than the original one.
The number of the fully vaccinated people who were infected with the COVID-19 was 3,128 as of August 23, up from 2,599 a week earlier, the KDCA said yesterday.
It equals to 40.5 in every 100,000 people who got fully vaccinated. As of August 23, the number of the fully inoculated people was 7,728,157.
