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Within this year? When will coronavirus vaccine be available?

Neal Browning receives a shot in the first-stage safety study clinical trial of a potential vaccine for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, Monday, March 16, 2020, at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle. Browning is the second patient to receive the shot in the study. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)The president of the European Commission said Tuesday that, after speaking to a German biotech firm, she hopes a vaccine against the novel coronavirus strain will be available this year.Brussels' top official Ursula von der Leyen held talks with executives from CureVac, a company that has received an offer of 80 million euros ($88 million) in EU financial support for its research.But her prediction is far more confident than that of many health experts, who predict that it will take at least a year and more likely 18 months or more to find, test and get approval for a drug. "They are working on a promising technology to develop a vaccine against the coronavirus," the former German defence minister said in an online video message shortly before sh

Mar 18, 2020
Within this year? When will coronavirus vaccine be available?

Vice health minister in self-quarantine after contacting virus patient

Vice Health Minister Kim Gang-lip. YonhapSouth Korea's vice health minister has gone into self-quarantine after having contact with a virus patient, the country's health authorities said Wednesday. Vice Health Minister Kim Gang-lip held a meeting with the head of a general hospital south of Seoul and other health-related officials on Friday.So far, a total of 29 virus patients, including two doctors, have been traced to the general hospital, Bundang Jesaeng Hospital, since its first virus outbreak on March 5. The hospital chief was diagnosed with COVID-19 infection earlier in the day."Clinical reviews are ongoing to determine the degree of contact made by the vice minister and others at the gathering," Yoon Tae-ho, who is in charge of quarantine operations at the country's disaster control headquarters, said in a daily briefing.The vice minister has not been ordered to go into quarantine at present, and eight other health ministry officials who were present at the meeting have gone home to wait for clinical test results.South Korea reported less than 100 new COVID-19 cases in each of

Mar 18, 2020
Vice health minister in self-quarantine after contacting virus patient

Seoul capital area on edge as infections continue to soar

While the number of new coronavirus cases reported in South Korea remained below 100 for a fourth straight day on Wednesday, cases in the capital area continued to rise, raising concerns over mass transmission in the region, home to 25 million people. YonhapWhile the number of new coronavirus cases reported in South Korea remained below 100 for a fourth straight day on Wednesday, cases in the capital area continued to rise, raising concerns over mass transmission in the region, home to 25 million people.Gyeonggi Province, which surrounds Seoul, reported 15 new cases, bringing the total number of cases in the province to 277, according to the latest data by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC).This means that the province is now the most affected area outside Daegu and North Gyeongsang Province, which were deemed the epicenters of the virus here.While the KCDC is set to release details on the figures at 2 p.m., the new cases are assumed to trace back to a church in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, where Sunday services took place despite the government's social dist

Mar 18, 2020
Seoul capital area on edge as infections continue to soar

People with type A blood more likely to catch coronavirus: study

A young woman puts on a face mask as she rides an escalator on the Moscow Underground. As of March 17, Russia had confirmed more than 100 cases of the novel coronavirus, with more than 50 cases in Moscow. Mikhail Tereshchenko/TASSBy Park Si-soo People with type A blood are more likely to catch coronavirus while those with type O seem more resistant, a preliminary study of about 2,000 patients in China showed. A team of Chinese researchers, led by Wang Xinghuan from the Centre for Evidence-Based and Translational Medicine at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, conducted the study. They took blood group patterns of patients in Wuhan and Shenzhen and compared them to local healthy populations. They found that blood type A patients showed a higher rate of infection and tended to develop more severe symptoms.In the general population, type O blood (34 percent) is more common than type A (32 percent). But in the infected, this was reversed, with type O people at 25 percent and type A at 41 percent. People with type O blood made up 25 percent of deaths in the research. Normally, people w

Mar 18, 2020
People with type A blood more likely to catch coronavirus: study

Seoul to pump in 327.1 billion won to support virus-hit households

Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon. YonhapThe Seoul Metropolitan Government said Wednesday it plans to spend 327.1 billion won (US$264.7 million) to provide financial support to its residents as part of emergency anti-virus measures.Under the plan, the city will pay up to 500,000 won to households whose income are below a designated level but are not eligible for separate funds that will be provided from the extra budget bill passed late Tuesday.The exact amount, which will be distributed via mobile gift certificates or cash cards, will vary according to the number of family members.Households with one of two family members will be paid 300,000 won, while those with five family members will be paid 500,000 won, according to the city government.The city government estimated around 1.2 million households will benefit from the scheme and anticipated that the plan will help small business owners as well as temporary and part-time workers and freelancers.The city, at a population of 10 million, has so far reported 270 cases of the new coronavirus, according to government data. (Yonhap)

Mar 18, 2020
Seoul to pump in 327.1 billion won to support virus-hit households

Korea reports 93 new virus cases, total now at 8,413

South Korea reported 93 new cases of the new coronavirus Wednesday. YonhapSouth Korea reported 93 new cases of the new coronavirus Wednesday, up from 84 new cases a day earlier, bringing the nation's total infections to 8,413, as health authorities have stayed alert for cluster infections across the nation.The 93 new cases, which were detected on Tuesday, marked the fourth straight day that daily new infections were in the double digits.So far, 84 people, mostly elderly patients with underlying illnesses, have died in South Korea from the respiratory virus that emerged in China late last year, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said.About 60 percent of confirmed cases have been linked to a branch of the Shincheonji religious sect in Daegu, which has a population of 2.5 million and is the country's fourth-largest city.The pace of daily new infections has shown marked signs of slowing since the second week of this month as health authorities completed extensive testing of 210,000 Shincheonji followers at the center of the rapid spread, but the authorities are s

Mar 18, 2020
Korea reports 93 new virus cases, total now at 8,413

Korea exports 51,000 anti-virus kits to UAE

South Korea has sent 51,000 sampling kits used in coronavirus tests to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Cheong Wa Dae said Tuesday, clarifying its earlier announcement. YonhapSouth Korea has sent 51,000 sampling kits used in coronavirus tests to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Cheong Wa Dae said Tuesday, clarifying its earlier announcement.Earlier in the day, the presidential office announced that 51,000 diagnostic kits had been shipped to the UAE in emergency exports as part of the countries' cooperation to fight the new coronavirus.But Cheong Wa Dae later revised the announcement in response to a contradictory news report. The presidential office noted virus diagnosis requires two kinds of devices ? one for testing and the other for specimen collection. What the country exported to the UAE was the second one, which is used to collect, store and transport bodily samples to laboratories for tests, the presidential office said.The government said that a number of countries have called for help from South Korea in fighting the pandemic.So far, 17 countries have formally requested test o

Mar 18, 2020
Korea exports 51,000 anti-virus kits to UAE

Virus threatens to hit state airport, rail, highway operators

The coronavirus outbreak threatens to batter South Korea's state airport, railway and highway operators due to tumbling demand for travel, data showed Wednesday. Korea Times fileThe coronavirus outbreak threatens to batter South Korea's state airport, railway and highway operators due to tumbling demand for travel, data showed Wednesday.The spread of the respiratory disease, whose first confirmed case in South Korea was reported on Jan. 20, has halted almost all flights to and from South Korea, cut the number of train passengers in half and made a big dent in vehicle traffic on highways.According to the data that Rep. An Ho-young of the ruling Democratic Party received from five state firms, Incheon International Airport Corp. (IIAC) is expected to see its annual revenue drop by nearly 566 billion won (US$456 million) in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.The corporation had originally estimated the number of international passengers using the airport at 72.54 million for this year, but the COVID-19 outbreak has forced it to slash the figure by 58 percent to 30.82 million.IIAC, the

Mar 18, 2020
Virus threatens to hit state airport, rail, highway operators

All people arriving in Korea subject to screening from Thursday

Travelers from France go through special screening at Incheon International Airport, Monday. / YonhapBy Kim Se-jeongKorea is expanding its special screening at airports and ports to all overseas travelers starting from Thursday, in an effort to contain COVID-19 which is spreading in Korea and around the world, the government said Tuesday.Currently, travelers, both Koreans and non-Koreans, arriving from China, Japan and all European countries are subject to special screening at entry points.“Given that the new coronavirus pandemic is spreading all over the world and that more people coming from abroad show symptoms or are infected, Korea will expand a special screening procedure to all entrants,” Kim Gang-lip, the vice health minister, said during a press conference held in Sejong, Tuesday.Kim said six recent coronavirus cases involved people with records of traveling abroad. “We feel an increasing need for stricter border control.” According to the government, as of March 15, a total of 44 coronavirus patients had a record of traveling outside ― 16 visiting Eu

Mar 17, 2020By Kim Se-jeong
All people arriving in Korea subject to screening from Thursday

New cases in Korea stay low for third day

A visitor wearing a face mask poses for a photo at the Gyeongbok Palace in Seoul, Monday, March 16, 2020. APSouth Korea recorded daily new infections of the new coronavirus in the double digits for the third straight day on Tuesday, but the daily tally in Seoul and its neighboring areas surpassed that in Daegu and North Gyeongsang Province, the two epicenters of the fast-spreading virus.The 84 new cases, which were detected on Monday and followed 74 new cases detected on Sunday and 76 new cases last Saturday, brought the nation's total infections to 8,320, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said.Of the 84 new cases, 32 are in Daegu and five are in North Gyeongsang, the KCDC said. The total number of confirmed cases in Daegu and North Gyeongsang, the two hardest-hit regions, stood at 6,098 and 1,169, respectively.Seoul, Incheon and Gyeonggi Province, which surrounds Seoul and Incheon, saw their new daily infections rise by 44 on Monday. It was the first time that a daily tally in the capital area surpassed that in Daegu and North Gyeongsang as health authoriti

Mar 17, 2020
New cases in Korea stay low for third day
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