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Korea's national response to COVID-19 outbreak
Korea's national response to COVID-19 outbreak
- 🎧 Phased return to daily life starts, more people per gathering allowed
- Nov 01,2021
- The government on Nov. 1 at 5 a.m. started the first phase of its four-week "phased return to daily life." Shown here is a scene at Naejangsan National Park in Jangseong-...
- 🎧 1M vaccine doses donated to Iran to mark 60 years of friendship
- Oct 28,2021
- A donation of a million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 on Oct. 27 arrived at Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport in the Iranian capital. Korean ...
- Vaccination rate hits 70%, dining curfew to cease from Nov. 1
- Oct 25,2021
- The government on Oct. 23 laid the foundation for "gradual recovery to everyday life" as the number of people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 vaccine reached 35,945,342...
- 🎧 President Moon, first lady get vaccine booster shots
- Oct 15,2021
- President Moon Jae-in on Oct. 15 gets a vaccine booster shot at the National Medical Center's vaccine center in Seoul's Jung-gu District. First lady Kim Jung-sook (right)...
- Korea donates 1.1M vaccine doses to Vietnam, 470K to Thailand
- Oct 13,2021
- In a first for the country, the government has donated COVID-19 vaccines to other countries, namely the AstraZeneca version to Vietnam and Thailand. (Yonhap News) By P...
- No. of people with at least 1 vaccine shot breaks 40M
- Oct 12,2021
- Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum on Oct. 12 chairs a meeting of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters at Government Complex-Seoul. (Yonhap News) By M...
- COVID-19 czar: 'with corona' transition could start on Nov. 9
- Oct 08,2021
- Jeong Eun-kyeong, commissioner of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency Commissioner, said a phased return to normal life can start from Nov. 9 under a "with co...
- 🎧 Finance chief: nation to coexist with COVID-19 from next month
- Sep 30,2021
- Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance Hong Nam-ki on Sept. 30 speaks at the 46th meeting of the Emergency Economic Council at Government Complex-Seoul...
- 🎧 30M get 1st COVID-19 shot 192 days after vaccination's launch
- Sep 06,2021
- The government task force on vaccination against COVID-19 on Sept. 5 marked the milestone of more than 30 million people receiving at least one shot of a vaccine. Shown h...
- 🎧 88% of population to receive KRW 250K per capita in COVID-19 relief funds
- Aug 26,2021
- Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance Hong Nam-ki on Aug. 26 speaks at the 44th meeting of the Emergency Economic Council at Government Complex-Seoul....