SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government will phase out all its residential COVID-19 treatment centers across the capital by the end of this month amid the receding of the pandemic, officials said. In their fight against COVID-19, Seoul and other regional governments operated residential treatment centers to quarantine and treat patients [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new coronavirus cases fell below 20,000 for the first time in six days on Sunday in a downward trend in virus cases amid the government’s effort to move the country back to pre-pandemic normalcy. The country added 19,298 new infections, including 24 cases from overseas, bringing the [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases fell for a fourth consecutive day to stay below 30,000 on Saturday as the government kept tight vigilance with the postponement of a plan to relax more antivirus curbs. The country added 23,462 new COVID-19 infections, including 11 cases from overseas, bringing the total [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases fell for a third consecutive day to stay below 30,000 on Friday, as the government pushed back the plan to relax more virus restrictions, citing the continuing omicron wave and possible spread of other variants. The country added 25,125 new COVID-19 infections, including 22 [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Middle and high school students infected with COVID-19 will be allowed to take school exams beginning this semester, the education ministry said Friday, as new coronavirus cases have been on a steady decline. Students who have contracted the disease will still be prohibited from attending school. But if they [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Central Disease Control Headquarters said Thursday it will develop a big data platform for COVID-19 by December of this year. The headquarters aims to create a big data platform that connects a variety of data related to the coronavirus that is scattered throughout multiple systems and use it [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — More than seven out of 10 South Koreans are in favor of giving medical assistance to North Korea struggling with a massive COVID-19 outbreak, a poll showed Friday. In a nationwide poll of 1,000 people aged 18 or above conducted by Gallup Korea from Tuesday to Thursday, 72 percent [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — COVID-19 patients will be able to vote in the June 1 local elections and parliamentary by-elections at the same polling stations as uninfected voters after the regular voting session is over, the state election watchdog said Friday. The patients will be allowed to vote between 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will extend the current seven-day quarantine mandate for COVID-19 patients for four more weeks until June 20, Interior Minister Lee Sang-min said Friday. The current level of the virus spread is within the country’s capacity to manage, but infection concerns still linger, such as new virus variants [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases fell to around 28,000 on Thursday, continuing the modest decline as the omicron spread has been slowing for weeks. The country added 28,130 new COVID-19 infections, including 15 cases from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 17,889,849, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency [...]