The government has decided to investigate how many Covid-19 antibodies are present among 10,000 people at the request of the presidential transition committee.Ahn Cheol-soo, chairman of President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s transition team, said so during a briefing on the activities of the Covid-19 emerg
Ahead of announcing new social distancing rules that will go into effect next week, the government on Tuesday hinted at the possibility of gradual easing of restrictions.“If we lift all social distancing measures at once, it will likely restart the epidemic,” Ministry of Health and Welfare Spokesman
As the pandemic shows few signs of abating, the government said Tuesday that it would allow more neighborhood clinics to provide face-to-face treatment to Covid-19 patients to support at-home treatment patients better.In December, the government designated 279 clinics across the country as facilitie
Korea's daily Covid-19 cases dropped below 200,000 for the first time in 25 days on Monday, creating the hope that the Omicron wave’s peak might have passed.The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) confirmed 187,213 new Covid-19 cases, raising the cumulative caseload to 12,003,054. It
Korean doctors have become more tolerant of remote monitoring of patients as an increasing number of medical institutions introduced non-face-to-face treatment amid the prolonging Covid-19 pandemic.However, most of them have yet to let their guards down on the possible introduction of telemedicine,
Korea has recorded the largest number of Covid-19 deaths among countries with a population of less than 100 million, but the quarantine authorities and private experts continued to bicker over the K-quarantine’s effectiveness on Friday.As the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases is larger than expecte
BA.2, the subvariant of the Omicron strain often called the “stealth variant,” is spreading rapidly in Korea, too.An expert said BA.2 would emerge as the dominant strain in Korea next week and continue to be so for the following 10-14 weeks before giving its status to yet another variant.Cheong Jae-
Korea marked a record high Covid-19 death toll of 470 on Thursday, but experts predicted that if the government maintains the current quarantine restrictions, new virus cases could show a slow decline from now on.According to a Covid-19 mathematical modeling task force, several research teams projec
President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s transition team has criticized the Moon Jae-in administration’s Covid-19 fight as “political quarantine,” but Cheong Wa Dae is counterattacking its critics, emphasizing the accomplishment of the “K-quarantine.”In a newly opened website, the presidential secretariat ci
The official Covid-19 death toll stood at 13,432 on Wednesday, but there may be a considerable number of “hidden deaths,” possibly pushing the unofficial toll above 30,000, a private expert said.According to the population trend of Statistics Korea, the number of deaths totaled 31,634 last December
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said it granted emergency use approval (EUA) for Lagevrio (Ingredient: Molnupiravir), an oral Covid-19 treatment imported by MSD Korea, on Wednesday.Lagevrio is the second oral Covid-19 treatment introduced in Korea. The ministry plans to use the drug in treating
As President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s transition committee sets about to discuss the new government’s policy projects, a state institute is drawing attention by presenting the provision of humanitarian health aid to North Korea,Despite the U.N. Security Council (UNSC)’s resolution on North Korea, South
Drug recalls following the detection of NDMA (N-nitrosodimethylamine) impurities in nizatidine-based drugs, which began in 2019, are still going on, according to officials.The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) recently disclosed the recall for Vivozon Pharmaceutical’s Alzatine Cap. 150mg.The o
The transition committee of President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol has hinted at shifting to the face-to-face treatment of Covid-19. However, the medical community called for a cautious approach, noting that gradual conversion is needed to restore normality.Experts agreed with the transiting to in-person tre
Korean drugmakers expressed regrets on Wednesday that there are no biopharmaceutical experts in President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s transition team.As the nation has experienced the Covid-19 pandemic for more than two years, the importance of the biopharmaceutical sector in dealing with infectious disea
Accumulated Covid-19 caseload in Korea neared 10 million on Tuesday, meaning that almost one out of five Koreans have tested positive for the virus.According to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA), the country added 335,980 new Covid-19 cases as of midnight Tuesday, raising the cu
Inflated health insurance claims by patients who had only minor injuries in traffic accidents recorded 650 billion won ($532 million) in 2019, government data showed.On Sunday, the Korea Insurance Research Institute (KIRI) released a report saying false health insurance claims reached 111.5 billion
Korea’s daily Covid-19 cases slowed down over the weekend, but health officials expressed concern that the pandemic might continue longer than expected due to the emergence of the stealth Omicron variant.According to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA), new virus cases dropped bel
The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) and the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) touted that the hybrid event of Medical Korea 2022 held online and offline ended in a great success.The two institutions stressed that the convention has heightened its reputation as a leading inter
Despite surging Covid-19 cases due to the Omicron wave, the government eased restrictions further on Friday, inviting harsh criticisms from experts who lamented that “the government abandoned quarantine efforts.”The ongoing pace of the Omicron variant’s spread has far exceeded the health authorities