SEOUL, Jun. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean vaccine developers are leveraging the expertise gained during COVID-19 vaccine development to accelerate the creation of messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine platforms. This push has gained momentum following the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency’s recent emphasis on domestically producing mRNA vaccine platforms capable of developing vaccines within 100-200 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO International Corp., the trading arm of South Korean steel giant POSCO Holdings Co., said Thursday it exported a swine pneumonia vaccine to National Veterinary Joint Stock Co. (NAVETCO), Vietnam’s premier animal vaccine enterprise, marking its maiden venture into the realm of animal vaccine exportation. This achievement is the [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd., a leading South Korean chemicals manufacturer, said Tuesday it has signed a contract to supply the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) with polio and pentavalent vaccines for infants and children. Under the deal, LG Chem will provide US$200 million worth of the vaccines: $100 million worth [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite the government’s recommendation to get a booster shot to minimize the risk of another wave of the pandemic in the winter, South Koreans remain skeptical, a survey showed Wednesday. Local pollster Hankook Research conducted a nationwide survey of 1,000 men and women over 18 years of age, in [...]
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Sabin Vaccine Institute today announced it is receiving an additional $21.8 million under an existing contract with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. These funds advance development of [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said Wednesday that the government will expand eligibility for the fourth COVID-19 vaccine shot to people aged 50 and older as well as people aged 18 and older who have underlying health conditions. The move comes as the nation is facing another wave of virus [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will begin vaccinating children aged 5-11 against COVID-19 late this month, Interior Minister Jeon Hae-cheol said Monday. The safety of COVID-19 vaccines for children has been sufficiently proven abroad while COVID-19 patients aged 11 or under have surpassed 15 percent of all cases in the country, Jeon [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The effort to bring up the rate of individuals receiving 3rd booster shots for COVID-19 is being curtailed as the government lifted the so-called ‘vaccine pass’ policy on Tuesday, which was originally introduced to encourage vaccinations. Korea’s Central Disease Control Headquarters reported that only 61.4 percent of the population [...]
PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Kiteworks, the leading platform for ensuring regulatory compliance and effectively managing risk with every send, share, receive, and save of sensitive content, announced today that customers can use Kiteworks for uploading, sharing, and storing vaccine-related protected health information (PHI) for employees, contractors, visitors, students, and educators. In doing [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean drugmakers have begun the process to develop COVID-19 vaccines that are effective against the new omicron variant amid concerns that the highly transmissible strain may become a dominant one soon. As the omicron variant fuels fears around the world that the pandemic could rage during the winter [...]