South Korea has reported 205 new coronavirus cases as of Friday midnight, rising above 200 for the first time since September, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said.

Of the new cases, 166 were domestically transmitted and 39 imported. More than 65 per cent of the locally transmitted cases were from Seoul and Gyeonggi province, a densely populated region near the capital.

The latest daily tally was slightly up from 191 a day before, taking the country’s total number of infections to 28,338 with 492 deaths, according to the KDCA.