Korea’s new Covid-19 cases drop to 55,437 Thursday

People wait in line to get tested for Covid-19 at a testing center in Daejeon on Wednesday. [KIM SUNG-TAE]

 
The number of new confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Korea was 55,437 Thursday, remaining in the same range as the same day from a week before, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency.
 
The number of critically ill patients was 380, and there were 67 deaths — the largest number of deaths in about two months.
 
The accumulative total of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Korea stood at 26,412,901.
 

BY LIM JEONG-WON [lim.jeongwon@joongang.co.kr]