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South Korea Grapples with 270,000 Long Covid Cases, Lacks National Support System

SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – In South Korea, over 270,000 people have been diagnosed with long Covid, the lingering effects of coronavirus infection, according to data released by the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service. The figures, obtained by Baek Jong-heon, a lawmaker from the People Power Party, show that from 2020 through July of this [...]

South Korea Launches Research Project on ‘Long COVID’

SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The government has decided to follow 10,000 people for the next three years to track down the source of so-called ‘Long COVID’ or the side effects caused by COVID-19. The National Institute of Health recently began receiving applications for the new R&D project that will study the side effects [...]