Janssen’s Covid-19 vaccine recipients reported the largest number of Covid-19 breakthrough infections among the fully vaccinated, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said in a regular briefing on Tuesday.A Covid-19 breakthrough infection refers to a Covid-19 case in a person two w
The Korea Pharmaceutical and Bio-pharma Manufacturers Association (KPBMA) said the revision of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act to restrict generic drugs would be an inflection point to bring about a paradigm shift in the biopharmaceutical industry.The KPBMA made these and other points in its latest p
Korea’s self-sufficiency ratio of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) has dropped by more than half over the last few years, as the country increasingly relies on China for drug substances, a report said.According to the Korea International Trade Association's (KITA) report on changes in the glo
The government will soon supplement its immunization schedule, as Moderna has informed it of changes in its schedule to supply 40 million vaccine doses, officials said Tuesday."Recently, Moderna has notified us that they will have to adjust the supply schedule due to production disruption," Prime Mi
Research Investment for Global Health Technology (RIGHT) Fund said Tuesday that it would provide an additional 13.6 billion won ($11.8 million) to help finance 10 newly selected research projects concerning infectious diseases this year.According to the RIGHT Fund, it has selected three new research
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said Monday that it has uncovered 482 websites that advertised illegal proxy purchase of foreign treatments for tinnitus, sleep disorder, and other diseases.The ministry has also blocked access to these sites and banned the drugs’ imports by requesting the Korea
As the fourth wave of Covid-19 shows few signs of easing, health officials expressed concerns Monday that the Delta variant, which has strong contagious power, will soon emerge as the dominant strain in Korea, too."Last week, the detection rate of the Delta variant rose to 48 percent of all infected
The government implemented the strictest quarantine measures to contain the fourth wave of Covid-19, but some people called for embracing the coronavirus as a fact of life and relaxing social distancing.They claim that the risk of the pandemic has been exaggerated. Although daily cases surpass 1,000
Korea has far fewer doctors than the average of OECD, but Koreans visit hospitals more frequently than any others in the rich countries’ club, aggravating the nation’s shortage of physicians, according to a recent report. The number of doctors, including oriental medicine practitioners, was 2.5 per
As the number of confirmed cases surged due to the fourth Covid-19 wave in Korea, nurses at public health centers left their job one after another.According to data submitted to Rep. Ko Min-jung of the ruling Democratic Party by the Ministry of Interior and Safety, 468 government employees at public
Korea's daily new coronavirus cases dropped Friday from the previous day's all-time high. Still, health authorities extended the toughest virus curbs in the wider Seoul area for two more weeks to curb a further rise in new infections.The country added 1,630 COVID-19 cases, including 1,574 local infe
The government on Thursday emphasized that a tight social distancing policy is imperative to reverse the resurge of new virus cases in the Seoul metro region and keep them from spreading to the rest of the country.It reiterated the emphasis as Korea's daily new coronavirus cases hit a fresh high of
Japan is speeding up to secure therapeutics that work against the Covid-19 variants as the mutated versions hit the world hard once again.Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare officially approved Roche's Ronapreve (ingredient: casirivimab and imdevimab) for treating Covid-19 for the first t
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) will fund $12.7 million to new clinical researches to expand access to vaccines in Africa.The Expanding Access and Delivery of Covid-19 Vaccines in Africa (ECOVA) consortium led by IVI will use t
Korea's daily Covid-19 tally hit another fresh high of over 1,700 on Wednesday, as cluster infections continued to spread across the nation coupled with the biggest military personnel outbreak.The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) confirmed 1,784 new virus cases, including 1,726 loc
Rehabilitation Engineering Research Institute said it has developed a cycloidal speed reducer with improved efficiency for physically challenged people.The improved cycloid reducer has widened potential applications for electric wheelchairs and wearable medical robots used by disabled people, older
Japan has surpassed Korea in the rate of Covid-19 vaccination for the first time.Once ridiculed by its citizens as a “vaccination laggard,” Japan has boosted the number of its injections to one million a day, thanks to the stable supply of Pfizer vaccines and securing sufficient immunization workers
As the sweltering heat ravages across the country, the Seoul Metropolitan Government said Tuesday that it might suspend the operation of walk-in screening stations during the hottest hours of a day to protect medical workers."We have prepared detailed standards for temporary screening centers and ar
The ongoing fourth wave of the coronavirus has sharply increased the need for Covid-19 tests, causing calls for introducing automation equipment. However, according to industry watchers, the lack of reagents for the automated facility will likely serve as a major stumbling block to automated testing
Even before the world called the ongoing pandemic Covid-19, there were people who had fought against this unprecedented infectious disease.Aside from the fears of having to combat the unknown virus, they had to endure suffocating protection suits, and their family members were estranged by neighbors