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Genetic sequencing firm to provide Seongdong employees with home healthcare

EDGC's co-CEO Shin Sang-cheol, left, and Seongdong District Office head Chong Won-o at the district office's headquarters on Oct. 13. EDGC will provide the district's employees and their families with home healthcare services that use the company's liquid biopsy-based predictive diagnosis. Courtesy of EDGCBy Ko Dong-hwanGlobal genetic sequencing firm Eone Diagnomics Genome Center (EDGC) will provide home healthcare services to Seoul's Seongdong District's workers and their families. The Incheon-based company signed the agreement with the district office, Seongdong City Management Corporation and the Seongdong Foundation for Arts and Culture on Oct. 13. The company will provide diagnostic test kits that can be used at home to take samples for analysis. The person can then check the results online. It is the firm's first such signing with a Seoul district government. EDGC told The Korea Times that the company's genetic sequencing technologies will promote “preemptive health management standards” and be “an exemplary case of managing employees' health status.” Th

Oct 15, 2020By Ko Dong-hwan
Genetic sequencing firm to provide Seongdong employees with home healthcare

Outbreak in Busan drives up daily new COVID-19 cases

Citizens wait in line to undergo COVID-19 testing at the National Medical Center in Seoul, Thursday. / YonhapBy Jun Ji-hyeThe country's daily number of new COVID-19 infections has bounced back to three digits due mainly to an outbreak at a geriatric hospital in Busan in addition to other sporadic infection clusters in the Seoul metropolitan area, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) Thursday. The KDCA said the nation added 110 cases for Wednesday, up from 84 identified for the day before and raising the total caseload to 24,988.Among the 110, 95 were locally transmitted cases, including 53 inpatients and employees at the Busan hospital who have tested positive since an assistant nurse was confirmed to have COVID-19, Tuesday.The hospital infections came after the government lowered social distancing guidelines to their lowest ― Level 1 ― Monday, based on the belief that the country's coronavirus situation had been showing signs of a slowdown. The government adopted the three-tier social distancing system June 28. But the number of daily new local infecti

Oct 15, 2020
Outbreak in Busan drives up daily new COVID-19 cases

Police ban Gwanghwamun rallies by conservative civic group

Jun Kwang-hoon, pastor of the Sarang Jeil Church who used to frequently lead anti-Moon Jae-in administration rallies at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul's Jongno District, talks to journalists at the Seoul Central District Court in September. YonhapProtesters against President Moon Jae-in rally at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul's Jongno District, Jan. 11. YonhapPolice on Thursday announced a decision to ban large-scale outdoor rallies planned by a conservative civic group critical of the Moon Jae-in government around Gwanghwamun Square, downtown Seoul.According to police officials, Seoul's Jongno Police Station has notified the "August 15 emergency civic response committee" of its decision not to permit its Gwanghwamun rallies planned for Sunday and Oct. 25, citing risks of coronavirus transmissions.The civic group has vowed to hold outdoor rallies of about 1,000 people each on the two Sundays in the form of worship services. The group said it will set up 1,000 chairs, 2 meters apart from each other, in a 400-meter section comprising sidewalks and three traffic lanes, north of the Sejong Cen

Oct 15, 2020
Police ban Gwanghwamun rallies by conservative civic group

New coronavirus cases bounce back to triple digits

A patient who tested positive with COVID-19 is taken to an emergency ambulance from a senior healthcare center in Busan's Buk District on Oct. 14 when nine employees and 43 inmates from the facility tested positive and the facility was quarantined. YonhapSouth Korea's new coronavirus cases rebounded to over 100 on Thursday mainly due to a new cluster infection in the southeastern port city of Busan amid an eased social distancing scheme.The country added 110 COVID-19 cases, including 95 local infections, raising the total caseload to 24,988, with the death toll reaching 439, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA). The number of new daily local infections is a sharp hike from 53 a day earlier and also surpassed the 50 mark, one of the country's barometers for the lowest level of its social distancing scheme.The spike in new virus cases came three days after South Korea lowered its three-tier social distancing scheme by one notch."The number of new (local) infections has stayed in the 60s over the past week, yet the number spiked to over 90 today due to the

Oct 15, 2020
New coronavirus cases bounce back to triple digits
  • Infection clusters popping up amid eased distancing rules

Infection clusters popping up amid eased distancing rules

Health officials disinfect a geriatric hospital in Busan, Wednesday, after more than 50 COVID-19 infections were reported there. / YonhapOver 50 virus patients reported at Busan elderly care facilityBy Jun Ji-hyeThe health authorities are struggling to cope with COVID-19 infection clusters that have consistently emerged across the country after social distancing guidelines were eased earlier this week.According to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA), Wednesday, the nation added 84 infections for Tuesday, raising the total caseload to 24,889. The daily new cases decreased from 102 identified a day earlier, but the authorities are staying vigilant over sporadic group outbreaks, in addition to a continuous rise in the number of imported cases that was partially attributed to group of infected Russian sailors who docked at Busan Port.Adding to concerns is that the government lowered social distancing guidelines from Level 2 to Level 1, Monday, based on the belief that the country's coronavirus situation has been showing signs of abating. The government adopted the thre

Oct 14, 2020
Infection clusters popping up amid eased distancing rules
  • New coronavirus cases bounce back to triple digits

Over 50 infections reported from Busan's nursing hospital

An ambulance is parked next to the Haeddeurak nursing hospital in Busan, Wednesday. YonhapMore than 50 patients and workers at a nursing hospital in Busan have been diagnosed with COVID-19, municipal authorities said Wednesday, in the southern port city's latest coronavirus cluster.The authorities said 43 patients of the Busan nursing hospital, located in the city's Mandeok neighborhood, and its 10 staff members tested positive for the new coronavirus. One of the infected patients has already died, they added.The mass virus infections have come to light after an assistant nurse in her 50s was confirmed to be infected Tuesday, prompting the authorities to conduct the coronavirus tests for all 261 patients and staff.The hospital, named Haeddeurak, was immediately put under cohort isolation, they said.The outbreak of mass coronavirus infections came days after the South Korean government relaxed its social distancing measures from Level 2 to Level 1. Busan, South Korea's second-largest city with a population of 3.4 million, has so far reported 486 coronavirus cases and four deaths from

Oct 14, 2020
Over 50 infections reported from Busan's nursing hospital
  • Korea reports 84 more cases of new coronavirus

Facebook bans ads discouraging vaccines

GettyimagesbankFacebook on Tuesday announced a ban on ads that discourage people from getting vaccinated, in light of the coronavirus pandemic which the social media giant said has "highlighted the importance of preventive health behaviors.""While public health experts agree that we won't have an approved and widely available Covid-19 vaccine for some time, there are steps that people can take to stay healthy and safe," the company said in a statement.The platform has already banned disinformation and scams as identified by public health institutions like the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It will continue to allow advertisements either pushing for or against government regulations linked to vaccinations.And it plans to launch a public information campaign in the United States pushing for people to get vaccinated against seasonal flu.Coronavirus vaccines are expected to be key to moving beyond the pandemic and several labs are currently working on developing the shots.The United States has pre-ordered millions of doses of vac

Oct 14, 2020
Facebook bans ads discouraging vaccines

Korea reports 84 more cases of new coronavirus

Children wearing face masks to help protect against the spread of the coronavirus play on the sculptures at a park in Seoul, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020. APSouth Korea's new virus cases rose by double digits on Wednesday as sporadic cluster infections across the nation and imported cases are dragging on the country's virus fight. The country added 84 more COVID-19 cases, including 53 local infections, raising the total caseload to 24,889, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA). It marked a fall from 102 cases reported on Tuesday.The number of daily new local infections also went down from 69 a day earlier.On Monday, South Korea eased most of its strict restrictions on daily activities as there have been no massive outbreaks following the Chuseok holiday, the Korean equivalent of Thanksgiving, and a separate three-day break to celebrate the proclamation of the Korean alphabet.South Korea suffered a major uptick in virus cases in mid-August, mostly traced to a conservative church in northern Seoul. The number of daily new local infections shot up to 441 on Aug.

Oct 14, 2020
Korea reports 84 more cases of new coronavirus
  • Over 50 infections reported from Busan's nursing hospital

New virus infections bounce back to triple digits

A boy gets a flu shot at a local clinic in Seoul, Tuesday. Yonhap By Kim Se-jeongThe Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said Tuesday that 102 new COVID-19 infections were reported for Monday, a return to triple-digit cases on the day social distancing guidelines were eased and reigniting concerns that it was too early to lift the restrictions. On Monday, the social distancing guidelines were lowered to Level 1 allowing people to pursue normal daily activities.Chun Eun-mi, a pulmonologist at Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital, said the government had eased the social distancing restrictions prematurely. “I think there is still a danger. We have many imported cases now. When you look around in Korea, you still see sporadic cases from daycare centers, the military, family gatherings and social meetings. So, we're not at a stage to feel safe,” she said.The government defended its move saying the uptick was not a result of easing the social distancin

Oct 13, 2020By Kim Se-jeong
New virus infections bounce back to triple digits

Pursuing COVID-19 herd immunity 'unethical': WHO

In this March 9, 2020, file photo, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks during a news conference on updates regarding COVID-19, at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. He warned against the idea that herd immunity might be a realistic strategy to stop the pandemic at a press conference on Oct. 12, 2020, dismissing such proposals as “unethical." APThe head of the World Health Organization warned against the idea that herd immunity might be a realistic strategy to stop the pandemic, dismissing such proposals as ``simply unethical.``At a media briefing on Monday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said health officials typically aim to achieve herd immunity by vaccination. Tedros noted that to obtain herd immunity from a highly infectious disease such as measles, for example, about 95% of the population must be immunized.``Herd immunity is achieved by protecting people from a virus, not by exposing them to it,'' he said. Some researchers have argued that allowing COVID-19 to spread in populations that are

Oct 13, 2020
Pursuing COVID-19 herd immunity 'unethical': WHO
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