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Korea's national response to COVID-19 outbreak
Korea's national response to COVID-19 outbreak
- Visa-free entry for Japanese nixed in response to Tokyo's move
- Mar 09,2020
- Cheong Wa Dae Spokesperson Kang Min-seok on March 8 said in a written statement that the government will reciprocate Japan's strengthened restrictions on Koreans entering...
- [While in Korea] Episode 13 – Protecting yourself against the COVID-19 outbreak
- Mar 06,2020
- Protecting yourself against the COVID-19 outbreak Jessie, a German exchange student in Korea, discusses with her friends how to protect onesel...
- UAE, Egypt to help Korea overcome COVID-19 outbreak
- Mar 06,2020
- President Moon Jae-in in a March 5 phone talk with the leaders of Egypt and the United Arab Emirates asked for their understanding of his delayed visits to the two Mideas...
- White House: no under-30 deaths from COVID-19 in Korea 'reassuring'
- Mar 06,2020
- U.S. Vice President Mike Pence (fourth from left) on March 4 holds a regular news conference at the White House with a task force on the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-...
- WHO sees 'encouraging signs' in Korea's COVID-19 outbreak
- Mar 06,2020
- World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on March 5 holds a media briefing on COVID-19 at his organization's headquarters in Geneva. (Yonhap ...
- NK leader sends letter to President Moon on outbreak
- Mar 06,2020
- President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on March 5 exchanged letters on the COVID-19 outbreak. Pictured here is the president at a Cabinet meeting on Ma...
- Moody's: supplementary budget for COVID-19 to support Korean economy
- Mar 05,2020
- Moody's on March 5 said the Korean government's supplementary budget to minimize the economic losses incurred by the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) could boost the ...
- Superior medical tech expedites response to COVID-19 outbreak
- Mar 05,2020
- Korea is speeding up its development of diagnostic technology to swiftly respond to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The photo above is a test medicine kit appr...
- More COVID-19 patients making full recovery
- Mar 05,2020
- A COVID-19 patient on March 5 is discharged from Chonnam National University Hospital in Gwangju's Seo-gu District. The hospital has 13 patients with the disease, includi...
