SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean government will establish what it is calling a ‘smart quarantine system’ in order to prevent the influx of foreign diseases. The government will coordinate with KT, a major phone service provider, and use international roaming information as part of its efforts. The Ministry of Science, ICT and [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – As Samsung Seoul Hospital announced a partial shutdown due to the further spread of the MERS virus on June 15, an exodus of patients to other hospitals in the district has begun. Samsung Seoul is forcing its current patients and those with scheduled appointments to move to other hospitals [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Health authorities and police in Gwangjin District had to deal with a woman in her fifties, isolated at her house as a MERS precaution, as she insisted on taking part in scheduled trip to China. After a night full of persuasion from workers at the district Health Community Center, [...]
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. 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 [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean health authorities have confirmed that five more people have been infected with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus, bringing the tally to 30 as of June 3. The Korean government has already stated that the virus has low infectivity, with Health Minister Moon Hyung-pyo even saying that citizens [...]