Despite lingering vaccine hesitancy among some people, the rate of adverse reaction reports after vaccination stands at a mere 0.35 percent, with most of them complaining of minor symptoms, health officials said Tuesday.According to the Corona 19 Vaccination Response Promotion Team, as of midnight S
President Moon Jae-in said Monday that the government would vaccinate 36 million people, 70 percent of the population, by Sept. 30, stressing that the national immunization program should proceed without a hitch."When the third quarter ends, the government will complete providing the first jab for 3
Saturday marked the 100th day of the government’s Covid-19 vaccination project, which started on Feb. 26.Contrary to the health authorities' initial expectations for high turnouts, there was considerable vaccine hesitancy among Koreans during the early stage, mainly resulting from safety concerns ov
The government launched a task force on Thursday to turn Korea into a global Covid-19 vaccine hub and end the fight against the pandemic.Minister of Health and Welfare Kwon Deok-cheol will lead the task force comprising officials from 10 related agencies, including the Ministry of Economy and Financ
The government said Friday that it would likely hit the target of vaccinating 13 people in the first half-year earlier than planned."The government expects to achieve its goal of inoculating 13 million citizens, a quarter of the population, in the first half of this year at an earlier date than expe
The plan to introduce 30 million doses of Pfizer vaccine proposed by a medical group in Daegu and the municipal government has ended as much ado about nothing in just three days."The central government has concluded not to proceed with Daegu City's Pfizer vaccine purchase proposal due to reliability
The Vietnamese government is openly asking Korean companies operating in the country to provide financial support for its purchase of Covid-19 vaccines.According to business officials, the Vietnam government recently announced its plans to raise a vaccine purchase fund with support from private comp
The public health authorities said Thursday that they have confirmed five more "breakthrough infections” among fully vaccinated people, pushing the total to nine.All of the breakthrough infections occurred in people who have received the Pfizer vaccines. Authorities are also investigating whether th
The Ministry of Health and Welfare said that Korea has been selected as a vice-chair country of the World Health Organization responsible for the Western Pacific region.Minister of Food and Drug Safety Kim Gang-lip will serve at the WHO’s executive board for a year as one of the five vice-chairperso
With the government's vaccine rollout program gaining speed in the past few days, adverse cases related to inoculation have also been increasing.According to the Covid-19 Vaccination Response Promotion Team, the government has confirmed 2,222 new adverse cases reported after vaccination on Monday an
Out of the 1 million Janssen Covid-19 vaccines provided by the U.S. government, 800,000 shots were booked out in about 15 hours of receiving reservations, reflecting young people’s wishes for quick immunization."On midnight Monday, we began to receive a reservation for the Janssen vaccines and close
Despite its excellent quarantine results against Covid-19, Korea’s overall score to deal with the pandemic has recently been lowered due to the nation’s sluggish vaccination process.Korea is ranked third from bottom – after Japan and New Zealand – in the 37-member Organization for Economic Cooperati
The U.S. government has decided to provide about a million doses of Janssen's Covid-19 vaccine for Korea's military, the government said Monday.According to the Covid-19 vaccination team, the U.S. will send 1,012,800 doses of the Janssen vaccine, which will arrive in Korea on June 5 aboard a militar
The Korea Orphan & Essential Drug Center (KOEDC) supplied syphilis treatment Benzetacil (ingredient: benzathine penicillin) the most among the orphan and essential drugs in the first quarter in 2021, government data showed.The number of supply cases of Epidyolex (cannabidiol), cannabis for medical u
With the Covid-19 pandemic going on for more than a year, a recent survey of more than 2,000 people has revealed that only 0.27 percent of Koreans possessed an antibody for the virus.Antibodies are the evidence that shows that a person has developed immunity after suffering an infectious disease.Acc
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration highly evaluated Korea’s responses to Covid-19, saying that the country’s experiences from the SARS and the MERS helped it contain the pandemic’s spread.In a report released on Tuesday, the U.S. regulatory agency pointed out that the Korean Ministry of Science a
The prolonged Covid-19 pandemic and the resultant rise in the number of depressed patients has reignited the controversy over the prescription rights of antidepressant drugs based on selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI).A recent OECD report placed Korea first among 37 member nations in the
From Thursday, people listed low among vaccination targets can check whether there are leftover AstraZeneca vaccines through applications run by Naver and Kakao, make a reservation, and receive the jab within the same day.According to the Corona 19 Vaccination Response Promotion Team, the system all
Korea becoming a global vaccine hub with the latest deals on vaccine partnership between Korean manufacturers and U.S. vaccine developers was the greatest outcome of President Moon Jae-in’s summit with his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden, a senior official at the Ministry of Health and Welfare.The offici
Seven out of 10 Koreans want to lower the drug cost by choosing a cheaper generic medicine that uses the same ingredient as the original drug if there were no difference in efficacy, a survey showed.Thus, the government should revise the out-of-pocket drug payment system to maintain the health insur