SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will begin its first inoculations against the new coronavirus on Feb. 26 with AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, but the inoculation of seniors will be put on hold amid efficacy concerns, health authorities said Monday. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said people and patients, excluding those [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans in their 50s feel vaccines for the coronavirus are very important, while the sentiment is less prevalent among those in their 30s, according to a recent study. A research team from Seoul National University’s Graduate School of Public Health conducted a survey of 1,068 men and women, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s drug safety agency on Wednesday approved the vaccine for the novel coronavirus by AstraZeneca for all adults, including those aged 65 and older, amid efficacy controversies. The vaccine developed by the British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant and Oxford University is the first to be granted approval in the country, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – AstraZeneca will start delivering the first batch of its COVID-19 vaccine to South Korea starting from Feb. 24, South Korean health authorities said Monday. The virus response control tower said in a statement that AstraZeneca’s vaccine will be supplied in phases from Feb. 24 over the following several days, [...]
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX), a biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today announced the start of the rolling review process for authorization of NVX-CoV2373, its COVID-19 vaccine, by multiple regulatory agencies. The reviews will continue while the company completes its pivotal Phase 3 trials in [...]
NEW YORK, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Skipta, part of Informa Pharma Intelligence and the leading social network of specialized online medical communities for verified healthcare professionals (HCPs), today announced its contribution to the Ad Council and COVID Collaborative’s national COVID-19 vaccine education effort. Skipta will donate in-feed and eNewsletter promotion of educational videos to the initiative to help strengthen vaccine [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in made an on-site inspection Wednesday of South Korea’s preparations for COVID-19 vaccine receipt, handling and distribution, as inoculations are scheduled to begin here later this month. He visited the Korean Air’s cargo terminal station at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, where a pan-governmental mock drill [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean panel of experts has said that vaccines for the novel coronavirus by AstraZeneca can be administered to elderly people amid efficacy controversies, according to the country’s drug safety agency Monday. The independent advisory board announced its review on efficacy and safety of the vaccines developed by [...]
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Jan. 28 (Korea Biziwre) — Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX), a biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today announced that NVX-CoV2373, its protein-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate, met the primary endpoint, with a vaccine efficacy of 89.3%, in its Phase 3 clinical trial conducted in the United Kingdom (UK). The study assessed [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Front-line medical workers in South Korea will get the first COVID-19 vaccinations starting next month, with the general public to be inoculated during the latter half of this year, health authorities here said Thursday. A nationwide free vaccination campaign will begin in late February, starting with medical professionals treating [...]