SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Medical experts are divided over the government’s decision to alleviate age requirements for the AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, which was originally available only to those over 50 years of age. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency introduced new measures last week that allow citizens over 30 years of age [...]
NEW YORK/SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has asked U.S. drugmaker Moderna Inc. to speed up its delivery of COVID-19 vaccines to Seoul in accordance with a prior contract, visiting government officials said Saturday. The request was made during a South Korean government delegation’s visit to the headquarters of Moderna in the U.S. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea on Friday allowed administration of leftover AstraZenenca COVID-19 vaccine doses to people aged 30 and over amid concerns over unused vaccines being wasted, health authorities said. The country had so far only allowed vaccines manufactured by British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca and Oxford University to people aged 50 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Social service agents, frequently engaging in physical contact with visitors at public offices, have been excluded from a priority vaccination list, raising controversy over discrimination. A majority of agents have yet to receive COVID-19 vaccines despite the high risk of infection as they meet with customers on a daily [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean drugmaker SK Bioscience Co. has won an approval to conduct the phase three clinical trial of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, drug authorities said Tuesday. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said GBP510, under development by SK Bioscience, a unit of the country’s No. 2 family-controlled conglomerate [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Moderna Inc. has notified South Korean health authorities that it will supply less than half of the 8.5 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine planned for August, Seoul officials said Monday, spawning concerns that the country’s vaccine rollout may hit a snag. The U.S. vaccine maker said some problems [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean travel agency is rolling out so-called ‘COVID-19 vaccine tours.’ Healing Vacation, a tour agency specializing in the Americas, introduced a travel package last Friday that includes receiving a Pfizer Inc.’s or Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen vaccine in the United States. With this package, travellers can get one [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will receive 700,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccine by Pfizer Inc. from Israel under an exchange deal, health authorities said Tuesday. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said the expiring COVID-19 vaccine doses will arrive in the country early Wednesday and will be used for [...]
SEOUL, June 26 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 95 percent of service members aged under 30 have received their first doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine since the vaccination campaign for younger soldiers began earlier this month, the defense ministry said Saturday. A total of 395,677 troops in their 20s, or 95.4 percent of the age [...]
SEOUL, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Friday it will strengthen support for homegrown COVID-19 vaccine development so that candidates can enter late-stage phase three clinical trials by the end of the year in a move to bolster its vaccine arsenal against the pandemic. The country will also step up efforts to develop [...]