WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The Sabin Vaccine Institute (Sabin) announced today that it has awarded grants to research teams in four countries to explore the social drivers of COVID-19 misinformation, and its impact on routine immunization acceptance and the acceptance of a COVID-19 vaccine. The grants are part of Sabin’s Social and Behavioral [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is close to striking a deal to purchase COVID-19 vaccines for 10 million people from U.S. drugmaker Novavax, according to informed sources Tuesday. The Seoul government has been negotiating with Novavax to secure its vaccines as early as in the second quarter of this year, sources with [...]
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX), a late-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today announced that it has executed an Advance Purchase Agreement with the Commonwealth of Australia for 51 million doses of NVX-CoV2373, Novavax’ COVID-19 vaccine candidate. This follows an agreement in principle that was [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Thursday signed a deal with U.S. biotech company Moderna to buy new coronavirus vaccine doses for 20 million people, with the supply to begin in the second quarter of next year, health authorities said. Following the deal, the total amount of COVID-19 vaccines South Korea has [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The vast majority of South Koreans are willing to get vaccinated against COVID-19, a poll showed Wednesday. The poll was part of a survey of people from 32 countries conducted jointly by Gallup Korea and the member companies of the WWS (WIN World Survey). For South Korea, the survey [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The defense ministry decided Wednesday to allow South Korean soldiers and civilian workers affiliated with the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) to get COVID-19 vaccinations shipped from the U.S. for its troops stationed here, officials said. The South Korean troops affiliated with the Korean Augmentation to the U.S. Army, known [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) began administering its initial doses of a COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday to health care workers, first responders, and its command team, including Gen. Robert Abrams, officials said. The first shipment of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine arrived in South Korea on Friday and had been in cold [...]
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX), a late-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today announced initiation of PREVENT-19, its pivotal Phase 3 study in the United States and Mexico to evaluate the efficacy, safety and immunogenicity of NVX-CoV2373, the Company’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate. The trial builds [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The defense ministry is in talks with related authorities to see if South Korean Army troops assigned to the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) can get the COVID-19 vaccine shipped from America for its soldiers here, officials said Saturday. A cargo plane carrying Moderna’s vaccine arrived in South Korea on [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The first shipment of U.S. biotech company Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for American troops arrived in South Korea on Friday. It is the first coronavirus vaccine that has been brought into the country. A cargo plane of U.S. delivery company FedEx Corp. carrying the vaccine landed at Incheon International Airport, [...]