Table 1 Demographics and mortality rate of 10,840 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in South Korea by May 8, 2020.

From: Genomic investigation of the coronavirus disease-2019 outbreak in the Republic of Korea

 

Confirmed cases

Deaths

Mortality rate (%)

Total

10,840

256

2.4

Sex

Male

4406 (40.7%)

133 (52.0%)

3.0

Female

6434 (59.4%)

123 (48.1%)

1.9

Age (years)

80 and above

488 (4.5%)

122 (47.7%)

25.0

70–79

710 (6.6%)

77 (30.1%)

10.9

60–69

1355 (12.5%)

37 (14.5%)

2.7

50–59

1958 (18.1%)

15 (5.8%)

0.77

40–49

1438 (13.3%)

3 (1.2%)

0.21

30–39

1177 (10.9%)

2 (0.8%)

0.17

20–29

2979 (27.5%)

0

0

10–19

594 (5.5%)

0

0

0–9

141 (1.3%)

0

0