South Korea is set to discharge its second coronavirus patient from a hospital as she has made a full recovery and shows no symptoms of the illness, health authorities said Thursday. The 35-year-old Chinese woman ― who came to the country from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak...Read More
What is the Global Health Security Index of South Korea? According to the 2019 Global Health and Safety Index of Johns Hopkins University, Korea scored 70.2 points in full 100 points, ranking ninth among 195 countries. Among Asian countries, it is second next to Thailand, which receives 73.2 points. The country with the highest Global...Read More
With the number of coronavirus infections growing in China and the rest of the world, the government on Feb. 2 announced stronger precautionary measures to prevent the virus from further spreading across the country. Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun made this announcement the same day while chairing a meeting of national health and quarantine officials at...Read More
The South China Morning Post in Hong Kong reported on 3 February that Thailand’s Health Ministry has found a way to treat new cases of coronavirus infections. The Health Ministry said the 71-year-old Chinese woman, a confirmed Novel coronavirus, improved dramatically after taking drugs that mixed anti-viral drugs and HIV treatments used for the flu....Read More
⚡ S. Korea will ban entry of foreign nationals who visited China’s Hubei Province in the past two weeks. ⚡ The ban will be effective from Tuesday. ⚡ Visa-free entry to Jeju Island has been suspended. ⚡ Voluntary quarantine urged to Koreans who visited China’s Hubei Province in the past two weeks South Korea said...Read More
Here is a list of designated clinics for the novel coronavirus infection. If you think you have been infected by the virus, please call 1330, 1345 or 120 to receive instructions before going to the hospital. * What are designated clinics? They are certain designated clinics outside ER or within medical facilities where people who...Read More
Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases announced on 31 January that it has succeeded in separating the virus from people infected with the Novel coronavirus. According to a report by Kyodo News Service, the institute took samples from the infected person’s throat mucosa and infected them in separate cells and increased the amount to isolating...Read More
Viruses are infectious pathogens that cause disease. It takes nutrients from the cells of other living things (hosts) to maintain life. It is different from germs that breed inanimate beings. So viruses cannot survive in the air for long. “The virus almost dies when it is released into the air,” said Lee Sang-won, head of...Read More
South Korea is expected to send chartered flights to the coronavirus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan tonight to airlift its nationals from the area placed under a lockdown, a foreign ministry official said. It would represent an hourslong delay from Seoul’s original plan to evacuate around 700 South Koreans seeking to leave the epicenter of the...Read More
President Moon Jae-in assured South Korean people today(Jan.30th) that his government would take every necessary measure to contain the outbreak of a new deadly coronavirus and threatened strict steps against related fake news. “There can be no compromise on the safety of the people,” he said in televised remarks, presiding over an inter-agency meeting in...Read More
