SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Almost half of South Koreans believe that getting vaccinated for the coronavirus is everyone’s responsibility to protect the health of others. A research team from Seoul National University’s Graduate School of Public Health conducted a survey of 1,084 adults in the country, 54.4 percent of whom believed that getting [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The defense ministry on Wednesday began administering coronavirus vaccines to military personnel, with doctors and other health care workers becoming the first recipient group, officials said. The medical staff at the Korean Armed Forces Yangju Hospital in the city of Yangju, some 50 kilometers north of Seoul, received COVID-19 [...]
SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) – As South Korea’s coronavirus vaccine drive kicks off, hopes are rising for a rapid return to normal life. However, migrant workers, often excluded from the government’s quarantine policies, are more concerned than they are excited for the vaccine. “We haven’t heard about any vaccination plans for migrant workers yet,” said Udaya [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The defense ministry said Sunday it transported a batch of COVID-19 vaccines to Ulleung Island in the East Sea to help inoculate local residents, where access through commercial transportation is relatively time consuming and difficult. The ministry said a batch of AstraZeneca’s vaccine from the government’s vaccine storage warehouse [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s health authorities on Saturday issued a new guideline to vaccination centers across the nation, asking medical staff members to maximize the number of jabs per vaccine bottle by utilizing state-of-the-art syringes. One day after the start of the nation’s public vaccination program, the Korea Disease Control and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of 300 medical workers treating novel coronavirus patients started receiving the first batch of the vaccine developed by U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. in South Korea on Saturday, one day after the country kicked off a free vaccination campaign. Doctors, nurses and other health professionals treating COVID-19 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — About 18,500 people received a vaccination for COVID-19 in South Korea on the launch day of the nation’s public vaccination campaign against the pandemic, a government agency said Saturday. According to the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters, 18,489 people across the country got their first shots of the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — With the long-awaited launch of the public vaccination campaign against COVID-19 in South Korea on Friday, many citizens and medical workers nationwide went through mixed feelings of relief, hope and cautious optimism and revealed expectations for an imminent end of the pandemic. About 13 months after its first confirmed [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea started its first inoculation program against the new coronavirus Friday over one year after its first confirmed case, as health authorities hope to attain herd immunity by November. More than 5,200 health care workers and patients aged under 65 at long-term care facilities across the country started [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Trucks packed with the first of some 1.57 million doses of coronavirus vaccines were distributed across South Korea on Thursday as long-term care hospitals and public health centers rushed to prepare for the country’s ambitious vaccination program. The nationwide distribution of the AstraZeneca vaccine for some 785,000 people, mostly [...]