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Korea's national response to COVID-19 outbreak
Korea's national response to COVID-19 outbreak
- 🎧 Immigration violators to avoid fines if they get 3rd vaccine shot by April
- Jan 26,2022
- Foreign nationals staying illegally in Korea in March 2020 wait in line at the southern Seoul office of the Korea Immigration Service to report their voluntarily departur...
- 🎧 Vaccine pass rule lifted at dept. stores, big marts, academies
- Jan 18,2022
- The lifting of the vaccine pass system of presenting vaccination verification or a negative result of a COVID-19 test took effect on Jan. 18 at six types of multi-use fac...
- All int'l arrivals to be banned from using mass transit to leave airport
- Jan 14,2022
- The Central Disease Control Headquarters from Jan. 20 will strengthen quarantine measures on everyone entering Korea from abroad. Shown here on the morning of Nov. 5, 202...
- Oral medication for COVID-19 to first go to elderly, those with lower immunity
- Jan 12,2022
- Korea from Jan. 13 will start prescribing oral medication for COVID-19. Pictured is an official (left) from the public health center of Incheon's Bupyeong-gu Office on th...
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- 🎧 Gov't secures anti-COVID-19 oral pills for 400K more people
- Jan 06,2022
- The government on Jan. 5 concluded a deal with Pfizer on pills to treat COVID-19 for an additional 400,000 people. Shown here is Pfizer's Paxlovid produced in Ascoli Pice...
- 🎧 Social distancing extended 2 weeks, vaccine pass rule widened
- Dec 31,2021
- Social distancing measures limiting the number of people in a private gathering to four and imposing a 9 p.m. curfew for restaurants and cafes will be extended for two we...
- 🎧 Homegrown PCR test for COVID-19 detects omicron in just 3-4 hours
- Dec 30,2021
- The country from Dec. 30 began to use a homegrown PCR test that can detect the omicron variant of COVID-19 in a confirmed case in just three to four hours. Shown here is ...
- 🎧 7,000 more foreign workers to be allowed entry next year
- Dec 29,2021
- The government next year will allow 7,000 more foreign workers to enter the country under the "non-professional" (E-9) employee visa to raise the overall number to 59,000...
- Oral drugs to treat COVID-19 to arrive as early as next month
- Dec 28,2021
- The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency on Dec. 27 said the country as early as next month will introduce an oral drug to treat COVID-19. (Yonhap News) By Pa...
- Deal on Pfizer oral medication for COVID-19 in final stage: PM
- Dec 24,2021
- Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum on Dec. 24 chairs a meeting on responding to the COVID-19 pandemic of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters at Governme...