SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will extend the current seven-day quarantine mandate for COVID-19 patients for four more weeks because rolling back the obligation could accelerate a resurgence of the virus, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said Friday. The current level of virus spread is within the country’s capacity to manage, but infection [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed new technology that can detect close contacts with individuals infected with coronavirus without using personal location information. Lee Taik-jin, a senior researcher of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, unveiled the digital contact tracing system (CTS) at a recently held seminar. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea National Institute of Health said Wednesday that it will publicly share its multiomics data, clinical data and human biobank samples from COVID-19 patients. Multiomics refers to integrated data produced to genetically, functionally, and environmentally understand the collection of particles and cells from human biobank samples. The institute [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The government plans to differentiate the level of compensation it pays to medical institutions taking care of COVID-19 patients depending on the length of the patient’s stay. The Central Disaster Management Headquarters, which operates under the umbrella of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, recently held a compensation deliberation [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The family of a female COVID-19 victim, who died during cohort isolation at a long-term care hospital for senior citizens in Seoul, plans to start a damage suit against the state, their lawyers said Wednesday. The lawsuit will soon be filed with the Seoul Central District Court on behalf [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of foreigners diagnosed with COVID-19 in South Korea has soared this year due mainly to the steady outbreaks of cluster infections at industrial workplaces, a government agency said Saturday. According to the Central Disease Control Headquarters, 1,747 foreign nationals have tested positive for the coronavirus here since [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on Wednesday that it will release a mobile app that offers a wide variety of information on public transport, including alerts that are issued when the user’s routes overlap with those of confirmed COVID-19 patients. The mobile app ‘My-T’ is scheduled to be released [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s government issued an emergency order earlier this week dictating private hospitals nationwide earmark a certain portion of their intensive-care beds for seriously ill COVID-19 patients, officials said Saturday. The administrative order, the first of its kind, was delivered by the Central Disaster Management Headquarters to all local [...]