SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Almost half of South Koreans believe that getting vaccinated for the coronavirus is everyone’s responsibility to protect the health of others. A research team from Seoul National University’s Graduate School of Public Health conducted a survey of 1,084 adults in the country, 54.4 percent of whom believed that getting [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The defense ministry on Wednesday began administering coronavirus vaccines to military personnel, with doctors and other health care workers becoming the first recipient group, officials said. The medical staff at the Korean Armed Forces Yangju Hospital in the city of Yangju, some 50 kilometers north of Seoul, received COVID-19 [...]
SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) – As South Korea’s coronavirus vaccine drive kicks off, hopes are rising for a rapid return to normal life. However, migrant workers, often excluded from the government’s quarantine policies, are more concerned than they are excited for the vaccine. “We haven’t heard about any vaccination plans for migrant workers yet,” said Udaya [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — About 18,500 people received a vaccination for COVID-19 in South Korea on the launch day of the nation’s public vaccination campaign against the pandemic, a government agency said Saturday. According to the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters, 18,489 people across the country got their first shots of the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea started its first inoculation program against the new coronavirus Friday over one year after its first confirmed case, as health authorities hope to attain herd immunity by November. More than 5,200 health care workers and patients aged under 65 at long-term care facilities across the country started [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly two-thirds of South Koreans think they will wait to see how the coronavirus vaccine is working for other people before getting the jab, a poll showed Thursday. A survey of 1,094 adult Koreans across the nation, taken by Seoul National University, showed 67.7 percent of respondents taking a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The vast majority of South Koreans are willing to get vaccinated against COVID-19, a poll showed Wednesday. The poll was part of a survey of people from 32 countries conducted jointly by Gallup Korea and the member companies of the WWS (WIN World Survey). For South Korea, the survey [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Over half of South Koreans think the speed at which coronavirus vaccinations are carried out is more important than verifying their safety, a public survey showed Wednesday. In the Realmeter survey conducted on 500 people aged 18 or older nationwide Tuesday, 54.9 percent of the respondents said the country [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will be able to start the coronavirus vaccination of its people in the first quarter of next year on a limited basis, according to Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun. “Inoculation will begin as early as in February or March at the latest,” he said in an interview with [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) –The vaccination rates among children for diseases like measles and polio in South Korea is higher than those of developed countries such as the U.S., U.K. and Australia with 97 percent of South Korean kids being vaccinated against these diseases in recent years, according to an analysis of related data, [...]