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Korea's national response to COVID-19 outbreak
Korea's national response to COVID-19 outbreak
- 🎧 Incoming travelers can register PCR test results on online system
- Jul 12,2022
- From July 14, incoming travelers to Korea from abroad can register their PCR test results on the Q-code system after arrival. (Yonhap News) Incoming travelers ca...
- 🎧 Korea last month topped Bloomberg's COVID-19 country rankings
- Jul 01,2022
- An elderly man on the afternoon of April 14 is vaccinated at a medical institution in Seoul on the first day of the fourth round of vaccinations against COVID-19 for s...
- 🎧 First domestically developed vaccine vs. COVID-19 approved
- Jun 30,2022
- SKYCovione, a vaccine against COVID-19 developed by the domestic company SK Bioscience, on June 29 gained approval from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety. (SK Biosc...
- Rapid antigen test accepted for arriving passengers
- May 23,2022
- The government from May 23 decided to accept both rapid antigen tests administered by medical professionals from incoming visitors who received PCR tests before arrivi...
- 🎧 No. of weekly int'l flights to rise by 230 next month
- May 13,2022
- Given surging demand for overseas travel, the government next month will greatly expand the number of overseas flights. The photo shows grounded airplanes at Incheon I...
- 🎧 Outdoor mask mandate to be lifted on May 2
- Apr 29,2022
- Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum on April 29 in a meeting of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters at Government Complex-Seoul announced that t...
- Eating at theaters, supermarkets allowed, COVID-19's alert level cut
- Apr 25,2022
- The Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters from April 25 allowed the consumption of food inside indoor facilities such as movie theaters and supermar...
- Schools to resume full in-person classes next month: minister
- Apr 22,2022
- Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education Yoo Eun-hae on April 20 holds a briefing at Government Complex-Seoul to announce the nation's full return to regular sc...
- Foreign media follow Korea's lifting of social distancing measures
- Apr 18,2022
- The world is watching Korea's lifting of most social distancing measures from April 18 except the mask mandate. Shown are people on the same day eating at the food cou...
- 🎧 All social distancing measures to be lifted from April 18
- Apr 15,2022
- The government on April 18 will lift all social distancing measures for the COVID-19 pandemic. Shown are the streets of the popular Hongdae area on April 13 in Seoul's...