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 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Shipments of the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines for South Koreans began Wednesday as health authorities gear up to launch a public inoculation program later this week. The inaugural shipments of vaccines developed by British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca were made at a drug manufacturing plant of SK Bioscience Co. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean panel of experts said Tuesday that vaccines for the novel coronavirus by U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. showed a more than 95 percent efficacy rate, and the use of the vaccine is not problematic for young people. The advisory board consisting of outside experts announced its [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will begin its first inoculations against the novel coronavirus later this week, health authorities said Tuesday, adding it might not be able to achieve herd immunity by November. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said it will launch the free inoculation program with British-Swedish pharmaceutical [...]
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX), a biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today announced the complete enrollment of PREVENT-19, its pivotal Phase 3 study in the United States and Mexico to evaluate the efficacy, safety and immunogenicity of the company’s COVID-19 vaccine. Novavax has previously reported positive interim [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea could produce locally developed vaccines against the novel coronavirus early next year, the ICT minister said Monday, as the country seeks to prepare for a drawn-out fight against the pandemic. Minister of Science and ICT Choi Ki-young said the government will continue to support development of local [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Less than half of South Koreans are willing to receive COVID-19 vaccine shots immediately, without waiting for further reports on those vaccines’ effects, an opinion poll showed Monday. In the survey conducted on 1,020 people aged 18 or over by the Korea Society Opinion Institute from last Friday to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey showed that most South Korean consumers in their 20s and 30s plan to continue to wear masks even after being vaccinated. Yuhan Kimberly Ltd., a maker of sanitary products in South Korea, conducted an online survey of 500 men and women in their 20s and 30s. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will begin administering 117,000 doses of Pfizer vaccines to medical staff on Saturday as the vaccines are expected to arrive in the country later this week, Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun said Sunday. “On Feb. 26, 117,000 doses of Pfizer vaccines will arrive in the country and the [...]
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX), a biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi), to provide 1.1 billion cumulative doses of NVX-CoV2373, Novavax’ recombinant protein-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate, for the COVAX Facility. The vaccine doses [...]