SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 300 Special Warfare officers were dispatched to public health centers Monday to help with the government’s handling of the new coronavirus, the Army said. A total of 379 officers from the Army’s Special Warfare Command were sent to 79 public health centers in Seoul and the surrounding [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The health ministry said Sunday it plans to secure a total of 10,000 hospital beds in the capital area to treat a surging number of COVID-19 patients. With 10,000 beds, the region comprising Seoul, Incheon and Gyeonggi Province can cope with 1,000 new cases a day for the next [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 2 million multiuse facilities and businesses will face restrictions if the government raises the social distancing scheme to Level 3, the health ministry said Sunday. Son Young-rae, a ministry spokesman, told a regular press briefing that the highest level calls for a no-assembly order on around 450,000 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s single-day coronavirus cases broke the 1,000-mark for the first time on Sunday, prompting President Moon Jae-in to warn that the country will have to consider enforcing the toughest level of social distancing unless the current spread is curbed. The country added 1,030 more COVID-19 cases, including 1,002 [...]
SUWON, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Gyeonggi Province Gov. Lee Jae-myung said Sunday that he will seek an emergency measure to mobilize a private university dormitory to accommodate new coronavirus patients. In a tweet, Lee announced his first such plan to mobilize a private facility to tackle the public health care crisis, as the province [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Health authorities will begin offering free virus tests at 150 new makeshift COVID-19 testing sites in Seoul and its surrounding areas under a three-week containment campaign, officials said Sunday, as the daily virus count breached the 1000 mark. The Central Disease Control Headquarters said that from Monday until Jan. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The daily number of new coronavirus cases in South Korea crossed the 900-mark on Saturday, reaching a record high nearly 11 months after the country reported its first virus case. The country added 950 more COVID-19 cases, including 928 local infections, raising the total caseload to 41,736, according to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s daily number of new cases neared 700 for the third consecutive day Friday amid concerns over a bigger and longer-than-expected wave of the pandemic during the winter. But health authorities remained cautious in adopting the toughest virus curbs as they could deal a hard blow to the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — An advocacy group for private educational institutions, or “hagwon,” on Friday urged the government to retract the no-assembly order imposed on its members in the greater Seoul area as part of anti-COVID-19 measures. On Tuesday, the government ordered hagwons in Seoul, Incheon and Gyeonggi Province to close for three [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Almost half of South Koreans either lost their jobs or saw their income fall due to the new coronavirus outbreak, a report showed Friday, in a sign that the job market remains sluggish amid the pandemic. The report by Statistics Korea showed that 49.7 percent of respondents said the [...]