SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of South Koreans share the view that the country should develop a domestic COVID-19 vaccine, but their attitude towards participating in clinical trials remains passive. The Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Korea National Enterprise for Clinical Trials jointly conducted a survey of 1,600 men and [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting next month, those who have received COVID-19 vaccinations approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) including Chinese vaccines, will be exempted from a two-week quarantine when entering South Korea for humanitarian purposes. China, however, still imposes a three-week quarantine for incoming vaccine recipients, even those who have received Chinese vaccines, raising [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — From free tickets to discounted travel, and to advantages in hiring, local governments are offering various incentives to encourage people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. As of Tuesday, 25.7 percent of South Koreans have received their first dose of a vaccine and 6.8 percent have been fully vaccinated, health [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen COVID-19 vaccine supplied to South Korea was not produced in a troubled Baltimore factory that was forced to throw out about 60 million doses over possible contamination, the health ministry said Saturday. South Korea has been administering Janssen’s single-shot vaccine since Thursday to reserve forces, [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans on Thursday began to get the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine provided by the United States, with many of them hoping for an imminent return to normal life. The Janssen vaccine, the fourth to be imported into South Korea after AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, is dubbed the “one-shot [...]
Seattle, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — AGC Biologics, a leading global Biopharmaceutical Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO), has announced its partnership with BioNTech SE (Nasdaq BNTX) to further supply Plasmid DNA (pDNA) starting material for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, at AGC’s Heidelberg, Germany facility. “We are honored that BioNTech has entrusted us to become [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Frustration is rising among South Korean firms in Vietnam as the Vietnamese government is pressuring them to make contributions to a public fund to buy COVID-19 vaccines. Local sources reported that the Vietnamese government has reached out to South Korean firms, asking them to contribute to the vaccine fund. [...]
SEOUL, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Kim Ji-woo (alias), a 36-year-old office worker, found herself near the end of the line to get a COVID-19 vaccine, as she is not among the groups that are prioritized in the country’s nationwide inoculation plan. But she learned that the newly-launched “leftover” vaccine booking system was a way [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The younger generation of South Koreans who have received or are soon to be receiving the coronavirus vaccine are making donations to the World Health Organization’s COVAX Facility project. This trend began following a recent online post by a young South Korean netizen, who said that he was “lucky [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Park Young-gle, an office worker living in Seongnam, just south of Seoul, had lingering concerns about getting a COVID-19 vaccine when a call arrived from a local clinic saying she was next up in line for a leftover shot. “Reports and rumors about blood clots related to younger people [...]