SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — COVID-19 patients will be able to vote in the June 1 local elections and parliamentary by-elections at the same polling stations as uninfected voters after the regular voting session is over, the state election watchdog said Friday. The patients will be allowed to vote between 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has decided to reflect the hospital admission rate of COVID-19 patients in the assessment of medical institutions as a way to give incentives to those who actively accommodate virus patients. The Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters said Wednesday it devised an incentive to encourage medical institutions [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Assembly on Monday passed a bill to allow COVID-19 patients and people in quarantine to vote from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on the day of the March 9 presidential election after regular polling closes. The revision to the Public Official Election Act was approved at a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A parliamentary panel on Thursday passed a bill to allow COVID-19 patients and people in quarantine to vote from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on the day of the March 9 presidential election after regular polling closes. The revision to the Public Official Election Act passed the National Assembly’s [...]