SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s drug safety agency has stepped up efforts to speed up the approval process for COVID-19 vaccines and treatments amid a third wave of coronavirus outbreaks. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said Tuesday it would apply for a special import procedure for Pfizer’s vaccines. The [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s medicine regulator said Sunday it will shorten an approval process of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, as the nation signed deals to import coronavirus vaccines amid the winter wave of the pandemic. It usually takes about 180 days for a vaccine to be approved under a standard licensing [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Wednesday that it will invest 100 billion won (US$82.15 million) in developing treatments and vaccines for the novel coronavirus to focus mainly on supporting research on treatment using plasma, antibody treatment and finding efficacy in existing drugs. “The government and private companies both will cooperate to [...]