SEOUL, April 29 (Xinhua) -- South Korea reported 680 more cases of COVID-19 as of midnight Wednesday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 121,351.

The daily caseload was down from 773 in the previous day, falling below 700 amid lingering worry about the fourth wave of the pandemic.

The daily number of infections hovered in triple figures since Nov. 8 last year due to cluster infections in Seoul and its surrounding Gyeonggi province as well as imported cases.

Of the new cases, 225 were Seoul residents and 176 were people residing in Gyeonggi province.

Thirty cases were imported from overseas, lifting the combined figure to 8,302.

Four more deaths were confirmed, leaving the death toll at 1,825. The total fatality rate stood at 1.50 percent.

A total of 539 more patients were discharged from quarantine after making full recovery, pulling up the combined number to 110,787. The total recovery rate was 91.30 percent.

The country has tested more than 8.80 million people, among whom 8,604,036 tested negative for the virus and 80,392 are being checked.

Since the mass vaccination was launched on Feb. 26, the country has administered COVID-19 vaccines to a total of 2,808,794 people with 168,721 fully vaccinated. Enditem

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