SEOUL, Sept. 1 (korea Bizwire) – South Korea is bracing for a prolonged virus combat as the number of cases involving unknown transmission routes and critically ill patients increases, with the country’s infection cases surpassing the grim 20,000 mark. South Korea, once praised for its successful containment of COVID-19, reported 235 new cases Tuesday, raising [...]
SEOUL, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul city plans to test all international arrivals to the capital for the new coronavirus, Seoul’s mayor said Thursday, as the city fights to contain the outbreak that is worsening due to imported cases. To screen the large inflow of arrivals, the city will set up a walk-through screening [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Digital maps are helping South Koreans keep track of COVID-19 amid a deluge of information on the contagious virus as the number of patients are increasing by the hundreds. South Korea’s infections remained relatively stable until mid-February. The total number of patients hovered around 30 and even remained unchanged [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean formed a policy consultative body to actively deal with the global WannaCry ransomware attacks that have affected the country along with the rest of the world, the government said Tuesday. The body is made up of government officials, researchers from state-run tech institutes, including the Korea Internet [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has confirmed its sixth Zika virus infection in a woman who returned from the Dominican Republic, local health authorities said Friday. The latest Zika patient was discovered 51 days after the fifth case was confirmed here. The 28-year-old South Korean woman has tested positive for the mosquito-borne [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) – According to Korea’s Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) and the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIFP) Monday, the latter’s BioNano Health Guard Research Center and Genbody have developed a test kit that can determine the presence of the Zika virus in just 20 minutes. The presence [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The fifth case of Zika virus infection in South Korea has been found in a man in his 30s who recently came back from a business trip to the Philippines, local health authorities said Wednesday. The 39-year-old man, whose identity was withheld, visited Batangas, some 100 kilometers south of Manila, [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The fourth case of a Zika virus infection in South Korea has been found in a 25-year-old woman who recently came back from a trip to Vietnam, local health authorities said Saturday. The unmarried woman, whose identity was withheld, worked in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam from April [...]