SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s drug safety agency on Wednesday authorized the use of global pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine for children aged between 5 and 11. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety convened a panel of experts from both inside and outside to review the safety and efficacy of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The defense ministry’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution task force marked its first anniversary last Thursday. So far, the task force has distributed 120 million vaccines, covering a distance of more than 9 million kilometers across the country in the process. The task force has deployed 52,000 military and police vehicles, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Several male recipients of the COVID-19 vaccine are struggling with severe hair loss. A 23-year-old man surnamed Ahn, began experiencing hair loss two weeks after being vaccinated with the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine by Moderna Inc. last October. The hair loss continued, and after two weeks, his [...]
Heidelberg, Germany, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – AGC Biologics, a leading global Biopharmaceutical Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO), today announced an expanded partnership to supply more plasmid DNA (pDNA) starting material for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the company’s Heidelberg facility. According to a recent news release from Pfizer and BioNTech, the companies have started to develop an Omicron-based [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The government plans to offer up to 5 million won (US$4,200) in medical fee assistance for treatment of post-vaccination side effects among students, officials said Tuesday, as the country plans to expand the vaccine pass system to include 12- to 18-year-olds in March. According to the education ministry, students [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s drug safety agency on Wednesday authorized the use of U.S.-based biotechnology company Novavax Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine. The protein-based vaccine, Nuvaxovid, marks the fifth COVID-19 vaccine to get approval for use here, following the ones by British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca and Oxford University, Pfizer Inc., Johnson & Johnson [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Bioscience Co., a vaccine unit of South Korea’s SK Group, said Friday it has extended an agreement to manufacture a component of the U.S.-based biotechnology company Novavax Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine by one more year. Under the extended agreement, SK Bioscience will reserve additional manufacturing capacity to produce antigen, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea decided to cut the dosage interval between primary vaccination and COVID-19 vaccine booster shots for senior citizens and others in high-risk facilities in a move to curb breakthrough infections and serious cases, health authorities said Wednesday. Booster shots for people aged 60 or older can be administered [...]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Following reports by victims and witnesses throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe – the Lerman Law Firm (Cathy Jackson Lerman, P.A.) is issuing an International Fraud Alert warning of an ongoing scheme to defraud the public involving the sale of fake and/or non-existent Covid-19 vaccine products [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean and American research teams have succeeded in raising the effects of a COVID-19 vaccine by a factor of 100 through the oriental medicine practice of cupping, which is normally used to treat muscle pain. A joint research team led by Prof. Hao Lin from Rutgers University and Dr. [...]