SEOUL, Jun. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean firms have decided to provide medical masks to North Korean workers at the inter-Korean industrial park to curb the spread of the MERS virus, a company official said Tuesday. South Korea has already installed three thermal scanners at the industrial complex in the North’s border city of [...]
PYEONGTAEK, Jun. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — An auxiliary nurse from a clinic in Pyeongtaek, the region at the epicenter of the MERS virus outbreak, shared her story of what it feels like to be isolated at home for treatment to prevent the further spread of the virus. After a patient who visited the clinic where [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Couples with upcoming nuptials are especially affected by the MERS outbreaks in Korea, as people are avoiding crowds in confined areas. More individuals are deciding not to attend weddings and are sending monetary gifts instead. Soon-to-wed couples are worrying about having few guests at their ceremonies, especially since aged [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus is set to provide a cell-phone position tracking service to help the Korean government locate the whereabouts of individuals suspected to have the MERS virus, as health authorities are determined to mobilize all measures to contact and manage individuals under suspicion. According to the Ministry of Health [...]
SEJONG, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Camel food products are not imported into or distributed in South Korea, the agriculture ministry said Tuesday, amid criticism over the government’s seemingly unrealistic advice on shunning camel meat and milk consumption to avoid Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). Since the first outbreak of the acute respiratory illness on [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government assured foreign diplomats here Monday that it is making every effort to bring the outbreak of a viral respiratory illness under control. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a briefing for foreign diplomats here on South Korea’s fight against Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. “The strong [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean companies are rushing to step up their emergency response efforts to better protect their employees from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), which is showing signs of a wide spread in South Korea. South Korea remains gripped by the potentially deadly disease that has claimed six lives so far [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) – After the government identified all of the hospitals affected by the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) on June 7, hospitals opened and carried out normal operations. However, their number of patient visits dropped precipitously. Samsung Medical Center in Seoul, one of the affected hospitals, was almost empty on June 7. [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Following the Korean government’s disclosure of a list of the hospitals affected by MERS, patient visits to these institutions have dropped drastically. Samsung Seoul Hospital, where 17 cases of the MERS virus broke out, had 18 percent of its medical staff isolated, and saw its number of daily visitors [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Camels in Korea are being isolated and tested for the MERS virus to ease the anxiety of visitors to zoos, although all of them were imported from Australia or born in Korea. According to the Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency on June 7, citizens do not have to fear [...]