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Korea's national response to COVID-19 outbreak
Korea's national response to COVID-19 outbreak
- KCDC chief, medical staff wage war on COVID-19
- Feb 27,2020
- The photo on the left shows Jeong Eun-kyeong, director of the Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on Jan. 20 speaking to the media when the nation confirme...
- Alert for COVID-19 outbreak raised to highest level
- Feb 24,2020
- President Moon Jae-in on Feb. 23 delivers his opening statement to an inter-agency meeting on the COVID-19 outbreak at Government Complex-Seoul. (Yonhap News) By Kim H...
- Surge in COVID-19 cases in Korea 'manageable': WHO
- Feb 21,2020
- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), on Feb. 20 in Geneva said the rise in the number of COVID-19 cases in Korea is "manag...
- Korea, China agree to boost cooperation vs. COVID-19 outbreak
- Feb 21,2020
- President Moon Jae-in and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Feb. 20 agreed in a phone chat to strengthen bilateral cooperation to fight the COVID-19 outbreak. This picture ...
- Health authorities to build regional defense vs. COVID-19
- Feb 20,2020
- Vice Health and Welfare Minister Kim Gang-lip, who is also deputy director of the Central Epidemic Control Countermeasure Headquarters under the Korean Centers for Diseas...
- Foreign tourists laud gov't efforts to contain COVID-19
- Feb 19,2020
- At a ticket office of Seoul Station on Feb. 17, a poster displays what precautions to take to prevent getting COVID-19 next to an automatic dispenser of hand sanitizer. (...
- 7 from COVID-19-stricken Japanese cruise ship return home
- Feb 19,2020
- Korean Air Force 3, carrying six Korean nationals and a Japanese spouse of a Korean who were on the Japanese cruise ship Diamond Princess, on Feb. 19 arrived at Gimpo Int...
- Koreans on COVID-19-stricken Japanese cruise ship to be repatriated
- Feb 18,2020
- Kim Gang-lip, vice director of the Central Disaster Management Headquarters, on Feb. 18 tells a daily briefing at Government Complex-Sejong that Korean passengers on the ...
- How Korea is tackling COVID-19 outbreak
- Feb 17,2020
- Since Feb. 2, pharmacist Suh Ik-hwan of Gwangju's Seo-gu District has been making and giving out hand sanitizers for free at his pharmacy. (Suh Ik-hwan) By Oh Hyun Woo...
- 700 Koreans discharged after 2-week quarantine for COVID-19
- Feb 17,2020
- Residents on Feb. 15 wave to Koreans discharged after spending two weeks in quarantine at a state-run facility of the Police Human Resources Development Institute in Asan...