SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Friday signed a deal with U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. to buy 30 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine to be administered next year, bringing the total amount to 120 million, health authorities here said. The deal has an option for an additional 30 million doses, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea shipped 290,000 doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to Vietnam on Thursday, in addition to its earlier donation of 1.1 million doses last month, Seoul’s foreign ministry said. An airplane carrying the vaccine departed from Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, earlier in the day and will arrive [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — One out of four pediatric patients waiting for heart transplants die before an organ becomes available for them, a study showed Wednesday. Researchers from the Samsung Medical Center analyzed the diagnostic data of 254 pediatric patients under 18 years of age who were on the waiting list for heart [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A U.S. trade panel has invalidated its final ruling that sided with South Korean drugmaker Medytox Inc. against its local rival Daewoong Pharmaceutical Co. over a botulinum toxin strain dispute, company officials here said Friday. In December last year, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) ordered a 21-month ban [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to secure enough oral COVID-19 medications to treat some 404,000 infected patients from global drugmakers and distribute them starting in the first quarter of next year, the government said Friday. The government said it signed a pre-purchase contract with U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. this month [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A new committee will be established to investigate cases of adverse effects after COVID-19 vaccinations in South Korea. The vaccination response team, which operates under the umbrella of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, said Thursday that it will establish a COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Committee to ease public [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Biologics Co., a major South Korean contract drugs manufacturer, on Thursday began to supply the first batch of Moderna vaccines manufactured in South Korea. In May, the biotech unit of South Korea’s largest conglomerate Samsung Group, signed a contract with Moderna Inc. to provide contract manufacturing organization services [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The first batch of 2.43 million doses of Moderna vaccines manufactured by South Korean biopharmaceutical firm Samsung Biologics Co. will be provided here this week, health authorities said Tuesday. In May, the biotech unit of Samsung Group signed a contract with the U.S. drugmaker to provide contract manufacturing organization [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Electric facial masks will become available for sale in South Korea later this year, the standard agency said Monday. The Korean Agency for Technology and Standards announced the preliminary safety standards for electric facial masks on Tuesday. An electric mask refers to a breathing device that uses electric filters and motorized [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will donate 1 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine to Iran, on humanitarian grounds, to help address its vaccine shortage, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Monday. The shipment of the vaccines will begin later in the day for arrival in Iran on Wednesday to support the Middle Eastern nation’s [...]