SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will allow the use of an Ebola virus drug in treating coronavirus patients if the drug proves to be effective and safe through clinical tests, officials said Thursday. The drug, Remdesivir, has drawn keen attention since the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) said [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean health experts said Wednesday that recovered coronavirus patients may have tested positive again due to traces of virus fragments that have been inactivated. As of Tuesday, a total of 277 people who recovered from COVID-19 have retested positive here, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government is pushing for a new international standard based on the country’s quarantine practices to share its experiences with the world. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced Sunday that it will compile all procedures and methods used to fight the coronavirus to create a [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — After a three-month struggle, South Korea’s coronavirus curve has markedly flattened on the back of nimble and massive virus testing and strict social distancing measures. Without draconian lockdowns and restrictions, the country emerged from one of the worst virus-hit nations to become the most successful country to curb the [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s health authorities have cited early testing and the country’s public health insurance system as reasons for the lower fatality rate caused by the coronavirus outbreak compared to other countries. Kwon Joon-wook, deputy director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC), said in a regular [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite growing social interest in “well-dying,” the concept that goes beyond “well-being,” some seniors living in Seoul are not preparing adequately for their death. In a survey of 526 men and women aged between 20 to 79 conducted by the city in September of last year, 44.4 percent of [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Friday it will shorten an approval process later this month for clinical trials and research for experimental vaccines and treatment to combat the novel coronavirus. Under the move, an approval process will be shortened to less than a week from the current one or two months, [...]
WASHINGTON/SEOUL, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The U.S. state of Colorado will soon receive South Korean-made kits to run more than 100,000 new coronavirus tests, one of its senators has tweeted, after Maryland purchased diagnostic kits to conduct 500,000 tests. Sen. Cory Gardner, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, expressed appreciation [...]
SEJONG, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of coronavirus test kits jumped on-year in the first 20 days of this month, data showed Wednesday. Exports of test kits stood at US$131.9 million in the 20-day period, compared with $7.25 million for the same period last year, according to the data from the Korea [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Seegene Inc., a major diagnostic assay maker in South Korea, said Wednesday that it has won an emergency approval from the U.S. health authority for its test kit for the new coronavirus that has infected more than 2.5 million around the globe. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted [...]