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 [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly three in ten patients who have fallen prey to the new coronavirus in South Korea suffered from dementia, local health authorities said Tuesday. The country’s COVID-19 death toll has risen to 124 as of Tuesday, up 13 from a day earlier, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — With the novel coronavirus spreading rapidly across the globe, the medical community in South Korea has been hit hard by the outbreak as well – in a surprising way. Rather than being overcome with patients, some clinics are actually facing a dearth of patients that is having a significant [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is facing an increasingly pivotal time to decide whether or not to continue its current efforts to contain the new coronavirus, as the country can win the virus fight after more than half the national population develops immunity to COVID-19, experts said Monday. “The outbreak will stop [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean biopharmaceutical firm Celltrion Inc. said Monday that it is accelerating work on a treatment for the novel coronavirus as part of its efforts to address the global pandemic. The company was earlier selected as a preferred developer for a monoclonal antibody project to treat and prevent COVID-19 [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean health authorities on Monday urged citizens not to be deceived by misleading reports in the fight to contain the new coronavirus, saying the so-called “infodemic” makes the outbreak harder to control. The World Health Organization earlier warned that the COVID-19 outbreak has sparked an infodemic — an [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Latin American countries are asking the South Korean government to share the insight it has accumulated in tackling the coronavirus as they are the beginning to face the effects of the worldwide pandemic. South Korean officials met with their Argentinian counterparts on Thursday via video conference to share their [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that a KF94 mask sterilized with steam can be reused and maintains a 99.9 percent filtering efficiency even after having been sterilized. The experiment was part of a bid to test the argument that if a used mask is treated with steam for 20 [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Since its first outbreak of the novel coronavirus in late January, South Korea has been waging a hard battle to contain the virus infections by preaching a “social distancing” drive and tracing all potential cases. Months later, its virus cases are showing signs of a slowdown. What is drawing [...]