SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly half of South Koreans are in favor of a cautious approach to the issue of COVID-19 vaccinations for teenagers aged between 12 and 17, a poll showed Monday. In the poll of 1,006 people aged 18 and above conducted by the Korea Society Opinion Institute on Friday and [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Monday that it will rev up its vaccination campaign by importing more vaccines before June amid concerns over tight supply which caused the nationwide rollout to lag. Health authorities said the country will receive 14.2 million doses of vaccines in May and June, enough to vaccinate [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Thursday began administering COVID-19 vaccines to members of the general public aged 75 or above and other virus-vulnerable groups as the country accelerates its nationwide inoculation campaign. Some 3.5 million people aged 75 and older began getting vaccinated with U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. products, the [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will begin administering vaccines to members of the general public aged 75 and over and other virus-vulnerable groups starting next month as part of its inoculation campaign, health authorities said Monday, with a total of 12 million people to get their first COVID-19 vaccine shots during the [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Heads of general hospitals in Seoul are stepping up as early recipients of the coronavirus vaccine to speed up the inoculation process. Gangnam Severance Hospital Director Song Young-goo became the first healthcare worker at the hospital to receive the AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday. “This is how we reassure [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea started its first inoculation program against the new coronavirus Friday over one year after its first confirmed case, as health authorities hope to attain herd immunity by November. More than 5,200 health care workers and patients aged under 65 at long-term care facilities across the country started [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will begin its first inoculations against the new coronavirus on Feb. 26 with AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, but the inoculation of seniors will be put on hold amid efficacy concerns, health authorities said Monday. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said people and patients, excluding those [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) –The vaccination rates among children for diseases like measles and polio in South Korea is higher than those of developed countries such as the U.S., U.K. and Australia with 97 percent of South Korean kids being vaccinated against these diseases in recent years, according to an analysis of related data, [...]