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Korea's national response to COVID-19 outbreak
Korea's national response to COVID-19 outbreak
- 🎧 President calls Korea 'leader in lowering COVID-19 to endemic level'
- Apr 06,2022
- President Moon Jae-in on April 5 speaks at his 15th Cabinet meeting hosted by the Presidential Secretariat building of Yeomingwan at Cheong Wa Dae. (Cheong Wa Dae's Faceb...
- 🎧 CNN: Korea's low COVID-19 death toll stems from high vaccination rate
- Apr 04,2022
- CNN says Korea's relatively low death rate from COVID-19 is because of its high vaccination rate. With the Korean government from April 1 exempting fully vaccinated trave...
- Gathering limit raised to 10 people, curfew expanded to midnight
- Apr 04,2022
- Social distancing measures to halt the spread of COVID-19 on April 4 were eased by extending the operating hours of multipurpose facilities by an hour to midnight and all...
- COVID-19 vaccines drive record 2021 for health sector exports
- Mar 29,2022
- The Korea Health Industry Development Institute on March 28 said health sector exports last year reached a record-high USD 25.7 billion. Shown are SK Bioscience researche...
- Q-code screening to quicken immigration process at Incheon airport
- Mar 18,2022
- The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency on March 16 said that from March 21, the Quarantine Information Pre-entry System, or Q-Code, will be applied to all passen...
- Restaurants, cafes to suspend vaccine pass system from March 1
- Feb 28,2022
- Minister of the Interior and Safety Jeon Hae-cheol on Feb. 28 chairs a virtual meeting of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters at Government Compl...
- 🎧 Curfew extended, US magazine lauds Korea's low COVID-19 death toll
- Feb 18,2022
- The curfew on restaurants and cafes from Feb. 19 to March 13 will be extended an hour to 10 p.m. (Korea.net DB) Korea.net · Curfew extended, US magazine lauds Korea's...
- 🎧 Convenience stores start selling self-testing kits for COVID-19
- Feb 15,2022
- An estimated 50,000 convenience stores nationwide from Feb. 15 began selling self-testing kits for COVID-19. Shown are kits on Feb. 6 on display at a pharmacy in downtown...
- Korea was slowest OECD member state to reach 1M COVID-19 cases
- Feb 07,2022
- People on the afternoon of Feb. 6 wait in a long line to test for COVID-19 at a makeshift testing center within Seoul Olympic Stadium in the city's Songpa-gu District. Th...
- British diplomat in Seoul hails gov't response to COVID-19
- Jan 28,2022
- President Moon Jae-in on Jan. 27 shared on his social media a post from Graham Nelson, an official at the British Embassy in Seoul, thanking Nelson for lauding Korea's re...