SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — People ignoring self-quarantine rules after arriving here from abroad are hampering South Korea’s drive to contain imported infections of the new coronavirus. Those flying in from Europe and the United States are now required to self-isolate for 14 days, with the Seoul government planning to make the two-day quarantine [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will enforce a two-week mandatory quarantine to cover all entrants from overseas over the new coronavirus starting April in a drastic measure to curb a steady rise in imported cases, officials said Sunday. The country reported 105 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the nation’s total to 9,583, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 500 people entered South Korea through direct flights in 2017 after contracting contagious diseases abroad, a report said Wednesday. A total of 529 direct-flight entrants were found to have contracted dengue fever, malaria and other infectious diseases in foreign countries that year, according to the report by [...]