On Monday, Korea's daily Covid-19 tally dropped to its lowest level since mid-January, when the Omicron variant had yet to go into full swing.The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency confirmed 6,139 new infections, bringing the total caseload to 18,086,462. The number of new virus cases repor
The government said it would implement a fast-track treatment system, providing diagnosis, treatment, and prescription in one day, from June.Its top quarantine official said Friday that the fast track system aims to protect against Covid-19 and minimize the risk of death by enabling high-risk groups
The Yoon Suk-yeol government set healthcare policies in the right direction. Still, they lacked detailed preparations for rising medical costs amid the population aging and the unclear use of physician assistants, public health experts said.The experts raised concerns over the sustainability of Kore
Reaffirming the downward trend of the daily Covid-19 tally, the number of new virus cases fell below 20,000 on Thursday to mark the lowest level in 17 weeks.The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency confirmed 18,816 new virus cases, raising the cumulative caseload to 18,036,720. It was the fir
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) is taking aggressive action against Kolon Pharmaceutical’s recent illegal distribution of flu medicine Comiflu (oseltamivir phosphate) to a daycare via a donation group without a doctor’s prescription.The ministry is probing Kolon and the entire pharmaceut
The surge of the Omicron virus was behind Korea’s record-high monthly death figure in March, Statistics Korea said Wednesday.The number of deaths in March was 44,487, an increase of 67.6 percent (17,937) from a year earlier, the highest figure since the government started compiling monthly deaths in
Reflecting the continuous decline of new Covid-19 cases, health authorities on Tuesday set the pandemic’s risk at a “low level” nationwide, the second-lowest of their five-tier rating system.It was the first time the entire nation entered the low-risk level since the government introduced the weekly
Monkeypox is spreading to the Middle East following Europe and the U.S., but the health authorities said they had established a test and diagnosis system to prepare for a possible outbreak in Korea."We completed developing and evaluating monkeypox’s diagnostic tests and reagents back in 2016," the K
Korea's daily Covid-19 tally dropped down to a four-digit figure for the first time in 118 days.On Monday, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency confirmed 9,975 new infections, bringing the total caseload to 17,967,672. Monday's tally fell by more than 3,300 cases from a week earlier and m
North Korea is in a state of emergency as Covid-19 spreads rapidly in the isolationist country, reports say.According to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the number of newly “feverish” people surged from 18,000 on May 12 to 174,440, 296,180, and 392,920 in the following three days before falli
The government has decided to postpone lifting quarantine obligation for confirmed Covid-19 patients for four weeks, explaining that such relaxation could bring about a resurgence of the Covid-19 virus as early as this summer.“While the current epidemic scale is manageable, there are lingering conce
A state research organ said Thursday that there would be no resurging of new Covid-19 cases in the short term even if the government lifts the mandatory quarantine of confirmed patients.The National Institute of Mathematical Sciences concluded so quoting a study conducted by Professor Jeong Eun-ok o
The state health insurance review agency said it would broaden the reimbursement criteria for Sprycel (ingredient: dasatinib), a leukemia treatment by Bristol-Myers Squibb.On Wednesday, the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA) released the review results on cancer drug reimbursement
The quarantine authorities predicted Wednesday that it would be virtually difficult to put an end to Covid-19."Please recall that we have to live with the Covid-19 virus for a considerable period," said Park Hyang, head of the overall quarantine affairs at Central Disaster Management Headquarters. "
With the cumulative number of North Koreans with high fever passing 1 million, a civic forum has called for the government to support the North swiftly and ease sanctions on the communist country.“Since 2020, the U.N. Chief Human Rights Representative and Special Rapporteur on North Korean Human Rig
Cassava Sciences’ simufilam (code name: PTI-125), an experimental drug for Alzheimer’s disease, used to be called “a miracle treatment” with worldwide attention.However, the U.S.-based company is struggling to enroll patients for phase 3 trials due to serious questions about the reliability of the l
Korea’s health authorities have confirmed 13 additional cases of BA.2.12.1, an Omicron subvariant, raising the total BA.2.12.1 cases to 19.According to the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters (CDSCH) Tuesday, 11 of the 13 BA.2.12.1 cases came from overseas, and two were local in
Less than a month has passed since the government downgraded Covid-19 to a “Class 2” infectious disease, but a lawmaker from the ruling People Power Party (PPP) proposed adjusting it back to a Class 1 disease.Rep. Kang Gi-yun of the PPP, a member of the National Assembly’s Health and Welfare Committ
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said it would make the most of real-world data (RWD) and real-world evidence (RWE) to study the safety of Covid-19 treatments and vaccines.The ministry will collect data from Covid-19 vaccines and oral treatments used in local clinical care to investigate their b
South Korea's daily Covid-19 tally fell to the lowest in nearly four months on Monday. Health officials said they would decide whether to relax restrictions further later the week.Korea added 13,296 new Covid-19 infections, bringing the total caseload to 17,795,357, according to the Korea Disease Co