SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., the country’s largest mobile carrier, said Thursday that it had entered into a business agreement with the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KCDC) for the establishment of an artificial intelligence (AI)-based service designed to help with COVID-19 vaccination. Under this system, SK Telecom’s NUGU AI [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea decided Wednesday to suspend a AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination program for people younger than 60 due to concerns related to blood clots. Set to start on Thursday, AstraZeneca vaccination programs for special education instructors and teachers at kindergarten, elementary, middle and high schools, about 70,000 in total, will [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Some 400,000 undocumented foreigners in South Korea will also receive coronavirus vaccines. The vaccination committee under the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said Tuesday that undocumented foreigners will receive coronavirus vaccines, based upon the same procedures for Korean nationals and registered foreigners. The government had previously announced its [...]
SEOUL, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Over 7 out of 10 South Koreans are willing to receive coronavirus vaccine shots, a poll showed Friday. In a survey on 1,000 people aged 18 and above conducted on Wednesday and Thursday by Gallup Korea, 71 percent said they would like to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Among them, [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Thursday began administering COVID-19 vaccines to members of the general public aged 75 or above and other virus-vulnerable groups as the country accelerates its nationwide inoculation campaign. Some 3.5 million people aged 75 and older began getting vaccinated with U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. products, the [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s nationwide inoculation against the novel coronavirus is expected to lose pace due to vaccination delivery delays as health authorities aim to achieve so-called herd immunity by November. Earlier this week, the authorities announced that a planned delivery of COVID-19 vaccines by British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca and Oxford [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — As the development of the so-called low dead space (LDS) syringes increased the maximum number of shots a vial of Pfizer Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine can provide to seven from six, South Korean medical institutions are mired in disputes over who is eligible for the remaining vaccine doses. The Seoul [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — With South Korea’s vaccination program slowly ramping up, a survey showed that half of wage workers are willing be inoculated against the coronavirus. A research team from the College of Medicine of the Catholic University of Korea conducted a survey of 1,103 wage workers nationwide, 48.2 percent of whom said they [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Insurance companies are coming up with plans that offer compensation for severe allergic reactions to coronavirus vaccines as South Korea begins inoculations. LINA Korea introduced a new short-term, micro-insurance plan on Thursday that offers compensation for various kinds of anaphylactic shock. If a subscriber suffers from anaphylactic shock for [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Tuesday began vaccinating people aged 65 and older at nursing homes and long-term care hospitals nationwide as scheduled, amid a mix of excitement and anxiety. More than 370,000 inpatients in the age group, caretakers and medical staff at such facilities are scheduled to get vaccinated in [...]