SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Park Young-gle, an office worker living in Seongnam, just south of Seoul, had lingering concerns about getting a COVID-19 vaccine when a call arrived from a local clinic saying she was next up in line for a leftover shot. “Reports and rumors about blood clots related to younger people [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly seven out of 10 South Koreans are willing to take vaccine shots to combat the coronavirus, a poll showed Monday. According to the survey conducted from April 25-27 jointly by the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, 69.2 percent of [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 60 percent of South Koreans said they were willing to get COVID-19 vaccine shots, but the number of those who said they would has dropped compared with in March, a survey showed Wednesday. Of 943 unvaccinated respondents, 61.4 percent said they were willing to be inoculated, while [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will accelerate the COVID-19 vaccine rollout as the country has secured sufficient shots amid supply shortage concerns to achieve herd immunity by November, the country’s acting prime minister said Monday. In a public message, Acting Prime Minister Hong Nam-ki sought to allay public concerns about a shortage [...]
SEOUL, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will start giving AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to health care workers and airline crews this week to speed up the vaccination drive against the pandemic, the health authority said Sunday. Health authorities will administer AstraZeneca vaccines to health care workers for the disabled, seniors and veterans as well [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., the country’s largest mobile carrier, said Thursday that it had entered into a business agreement with the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KCDC) for the establishment of an artificial intelligence (AI)-based service designed to help with COVID-19 vaccination. Under this system, SK Telecom’s NUGU AI [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — With South Korea’s vaccination program slowly ramping up, a survey showed that half of wage workers are willing be inoculated against the coronavirus. A research team from the College of Medicine of the Catholic University of Korea conducted a survey of 1,103 wage workers nationwide, 48.2 percent of whom said they [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Tuesday began vaccinating people aged 65 and older at nursing homes and long-term care hospitals nationwide as scheduled, amid a mix of excitement and anxiety. More than 370,000 inpatients in the age group, caretakers and medical staff at such facilities are scheduled to get vaccinated in [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will start administering vaccines to inpatients and employees of nursing homes and long-term care hospitals who are aged 65 or older this week as part of its monthslong inoculation plan, health authorities said Sunday. Starting from Tuesday, more than 370,000 health workers and patients aged 65 and [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — With South Korea’s major hospitals starting COVID-19 vaccinations for their healthcare workers, the so-called low dead space (LDS) syringe has contributed to greatly increasing the number of vaccinated people per vial of the vaccine. The Seoul National University Hospital vaccinated a total of 3,240 people with 277 vials of [...]