BUSAN, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — In order to shorten the time spent collecting samples for COVID-19 testing, rapid walk-through booths are entering use. The Nam-gu Public Health Center in the southeastern port city of Busan and the manufacturer of an airtight box, Korea Kiyon Co., said Tuesday that they had developed and are testing [...]
DAEGU, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Citizens of Daegu, the nation’s epicenter of the viral disease, are struggling psychologically as the coronavirus outbreak continues to take a toll on the city. Among those infected with the coronavirus, some experience severe anxiety and depression and are prescribed with sleeping pills. “Irregular workers and small business owners suffer [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean testing technology for the novel coronavirus will be designated as an international standard. The Korea Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) and the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced Sunday that South Korea’s real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) method had been accepted by the International Organization [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Three South Korean COVID-19 test-kit companies have obtained preliminary approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the foreign ministry said Saturday. The initial FDA approval will allow the Korean test-kit makers to sell the products in the United States, where the number of confirmed coronavirus cases has [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Saturday it has achieved a 50 percent cure rate for people infected with coronavirus, a feat that underscored the importance of aggressive tests, quarantines and social distancing in the fight against the virus. South Korea had released 4,811 fully recovered COVID-19 patients from hospitals as of [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean drug safety watchdog said Friday it has approved five clinical trials of existing drugs that could be used to treat COVID-19 patients as part of efforts to combat the disease ravaging the world. Three of the clinical trials involve the Ebola drug Remdesivir and will be [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean-made virus test kits are increasing their presence in overseas markets, industry observers said Thursday, as demand for diagnostic tools to fight the new coronavirus accelerates in many virus-hit countries. According to Seoul’s foreign ministry, 47 countries have so far asked about importing South Korean-made coronavirus test kits, [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — When YouTuber Ddulgi uploaded a four-minute video on making dalgona coffee on the global video-sharing platform in mid-February, she did not expect it to turn into a mega-hit garnering over 3 million views in less than a month. Amid “social distancing” measures due to COVID-19, more South Koreans are [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — About 15 percent of South Korean coronavirus patients said they lost their sense of smell or taste, a survey showed Wednesday, in a possible indication that loss of smell or taste may be an early sign of virus infection. According to the telephone survey by doctors in the virus-hit [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will launch a new cutting-edge system to track the movements of people infected with the novel coronavirus and their contacts more quickly, the land ministry said Wednesday, another powerful tool in the country’s virus fight to help detect potential cases and quarantine COVID-19 patients. The system, which [...]