SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — About 15 percent of South Korean coronavirus patients said they lost their sense of smell or taste, a survey showed Wednesday, in a possible indication that loss of smell or taste may be an early sign of virus infection. According to the telephone survey by doctors in the virus-hit [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will launch a new cutting-edge system to track the movements of people infected with the novel coronavirus and their contacts more quickly, the land ministry said Wednesday, another powerful tool in the country’s virus fight to help detect potential cases and quarantine COVID-19 patients. The system, which [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean football federation announced Tuesday its main national team training center will house coronavirus patients starting this week. From Wednesday, the main building at the National Football Center (NFC) in Paju, north of Seoul in Gyeonggi Province, will be open for those with mild cases of COVID-19, [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — With the novel coronavirus spreading rapidly across the globe, the medical community in South Korea has been hit hard by the outbreak as well – in a surprising way. Rather than being overcome with patients, some clinics are actually facing a dearth of patients that is having a significant [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — With the spread of the novel coronavirus outbreak in Korea, the number of individuals visiting hospitals has dropped sharply. The Korean Hospital Association surveyed 98 hospitals nationwide and identified trends related to inpatients and outpatients. As a result, the number of hospitalized patients dropped by an average of 3.7 [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Coronavirus patients can now request corrective measures whenever they feel their rights and privacy have been violated after their travel logs go public. The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced Tuesday that new legislation on epidemics management that includes the aforementioned policy went into effect early this month. The [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea set new guidelines advising local governments to hold back unnecessary private information of coronavirus patients on Saturday. Regional governments across South Korea have alerted their residents against coronavirus infection risks, releasing detailed routes and destinations used by coronavirus patients within their jurisdiction. During the process, the private [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul National University Hospital has begun to provide a telemedicine service to coronavirus patients near the epicenter South Korea’s virus outbreak. A team of four doctors and 13 nurses at the general hospital in Seoul can monitor the status of COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms through video calls. The [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will operate a system to support epidemiological investigation of people infected with the novel coronavirus by utilizing various cutting-edge technology, government officials said Wednesday. The system is aimed at helping health investigators to swiftly check various data such as surveillance camera footage and credit card transactions of [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Local authorities across the country are pushing to help the city of Daegu as it struggles to acquire enough hospital beds for coronavirus patients. “We will accept patients from Daegu with mild coronavirus infections to be treated at the Bitgoeul Hospital and Chonnam Gwangju Second Geriatric Hospital both operated [...]