SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new coronavirus cases rose by a double-digit number for the second straight day Saturday, but health authorities remain alert over an increase in sporadic cluster infections amid eased virus curbs. The country added 73 more COVID-19 cases, including 62 domestic infections, raising the total caseload to 25,108, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — From the millions of plastic gloves voters wore during South Korea’s general elections to the face masks that have emerged as a daily essential, the new coronavirus has been accompanied by another plight: plastic waste. South Korea was already one of the world’s biggest plastic-consuming countries per capita before [...]
DAEJEON, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top-ranked science and technology university has developed a new technology that can get rid of the novel coronavirus in the air. The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) announced on Wednesday that it had developed electrostatic atomization technology that can create a massive amount of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s daily new coronavirus cases fell sharply Friday, but health authorities are staying vigilant over possible cluster infections amid an eased social distancing scheme. The country added 47 COVID-19 cases, including 41 domestic infections, raising the total caseload to 25,035, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new coronavirus cases rebounded to over 100 on Thursday mainly due to a new cluster infection in the southeastern port city of Busan amid an eased social distancing scheme. The country added 110 COVID-19 cases, including 95 local infections, raising the total caseload to 24,988, with the [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — In a study published online in Science today, an international team of almost 200 researchers from 14 leading institutions in six countries studied the three lethal coronaviruses SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV-1 and MERS-CoV in order to identify commonly hijacked cellular pathways and detect promising targets for broad coronavirus inhibition. In addition, using [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new virus cases rose by double digits Wednesday amid concerns that a new cluster infection in the southeastern port city of Busan could potentially lead to a mass outbreak. The country added 84 more COVID-19 cases, including 53 local infections, raising the total caseload to 24,889, according [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — As the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage on, more people are choosing to stay indoors. Among them, members of the younger generation are increasingly preferring to order food, while the older generation prefers to cook themselves, a recent study showed. The Korea Health Promotion Institution conducted a survey of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new virus cases rebounded to over 100 on Tuesday, snapping five consecutive days of a two-digit rise, as sporadic cluster infections continued across the nation and imported cases rose amid an eased social distancing scheme that went into effect this week. The country added 102 COVID-19 cases, [...]
INCHEON, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — This year’s Incheon Pentaport Rock Festival, the biggest annual South Korean outdoor rock concert, will kick off this week in a virtual way due to the new coronavirus, its organizers said Tuesday. The 2020 festival, the 15th of its kind, runs on Friday and Saturday, with all concerts and [...]