SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 has grown sharply in South Korea recently amid a virus resurgence in summertime nationwide, health authorities said Friday. The number of people admitted to 220 hospitals nationwide for COVID-19 came to 861 in the first week of August, the highest level since [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – In a significant legal decision, the Seoul Central District Court has ruled against national university students seeking tuition refunds for classes moved online during the COVID-19 pandemic. The verdict, delivered on June 27, marks another setback for students claiming their right to education was infringed upon due to the shift [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent report from the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) reveals a troubling trend in South Korea: intentional self-harm hospitalizations have more than doubled over the past decade, with teenagers being the most affected group. According to the “2022 Hospital Discharge Injury Statistics” released on June 26, the [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) – With the Covid-19 pandemic waning in South Korea, a government survey has found that most aspects of teenagers’ daily lives, including relationships with friends and family as well as school experiences, are undergoing positive changes. Adolescents have reported spending significantly more time confiding in their parents about their concerns, sharing [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is set to fully shift to an “endemic” approach to the COVID-19 pandemic, lifting some last-remaining mandates, including indoor mask requirements for hospitals, from next month, officials said Friday. The disaster level of COVID-19 will be downgraded to the lowest tier in South Korea in a way [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the family of an elderly woman who died shortly after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, ruling that compensation from the government is limited to side effects with a medically recognized causal relationship. The Seoul Administrative Court ruled against the plaintiff, identified [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) reported on January 25 that the number of new COVID-19 cases in the third week of January (January 14 to January 20) slightly increased to 5,383, a 7% rise from the previous week. According to the KDCA’s ‘COVID-19 Positive Case Sample Surveillance [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — SK bioscience Co. said Tuesday it has started supplying Novavax’s updated COVID-19 vaccine to target the XBB.1.5 subvariant in South Korea. The vaccine, the only non-messenger RNA formulation against COVID-19 in the world, will be available for free at designated hospitals and health centers across the country starting next [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean public hospitals specifically designated for handling infectious diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic continue to grapple with lingering effects. However, their financial woes are escalating as the government has drastically cut the financial support offered to these hospitals. On Thursday, the Korean Health and Medical Workers Union and the [...]
SHANGHAI, China, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Shanghai Junshi Biosciences Co., Ltd (“Junshi Biosciences,” HKEX: 1877; SSE: 688180), a leading innovation-driven biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel therapies, announced a new publication in the Lancet Infectious Diseases. The paper presents final analysis results from a multicenter, double-blind, phase 3, randomized controlled study [...]