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Hybrid cars are parked at a parking spot dedicated to ″environmentally-friendly vehicles″ at a shopping center in Seoul. [YONHAP]

Hybrid high: Partially electric vehicles hit registration record in Oct.

A total of 311,769 new hybrid vehicles were registered in Korea from January to October, up 24.8 percent on year, marking a record high.

2024.11.18

Students head to an elementary school in Seoul on Wednesday, as schools began to reopen nationwide amid the sixth wave of Covid-19 cases. [YONHAP]

Covid cases soar to four-month high

New Covid-19 cases soared to a four-month high of over 180,000 following the three-day holiday weekend.

2022.8.17

Covid patients told to scoot as critical cases, deaths hit highs

Critical Covid-19 cases and related deaths in Korea both hit new highs on Thursday as the government started ordering over 200 virus patients hospitalized longer than 20 days out of their intensive care unit (I.C.U.) to free space for new arrivals.

2021.12.23

An intensive care unit is being turned into a negative pressure room in Hyemin Hospital, a recently designated Covid-19-dedicated hospital in Gwangjin District, eastern Seoul, on Wednesday. [YONHAP]

As hospitals focus on Covid, concerns are raised over general patients

Concerns have been raised over a disruption in general medical treatment as the government this month is set to designate more public hospitals and some 10,000 hospital beds to Covid-19 patients.

2021.12.22

Medical staff in Level D protective suits give the O.K. hand sign in a negative pressure room in Hyemin Hospital, a Covid-19-dedicated hospital in Gwangjin District, eastern Seoul, on Tuesday. [WOO SANG-JO]

14 hospitals across country now operating just for Covid

More private hospitals across the country are dedicating themselves to treating solely Covid-19 patients as Korea continues to see a record number of critical cases.

2021.12.21

A Covid-19 patient arriving in an ambulance from Incheon is being transferred to Seoul Medical Center in Jungnang District, eastern Seoul, on Sunday, as the country struggles with a tight supply of hospital beds. [YONHAP]

Critical cases reach a record high, I.C.U. beds running short

The number of critical Covid-19 cases hit a new high of 1,025 on Sunday, above 1,000 for the second straight day amid toughened social distancing rules restored nationwide.

2021.12.19

A medical team from Seoul Medical Center transfers a Covid-19 patient to a hospital in Jung District, central Seoul, on Sunday. The number of critically ill patients reached an all-time high of 894 on Sunday, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency. [YONHAP]

Hospitals near limit as number of critically ill rises

The number of critically ill patients in Korea hit a record 894 on Sunday, close to the hospital system's breaking point. An additional 43 deaths were reported on Sunday, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA)...

2021.12.12

Mobile hospital units are set up in the parking lot of Seoul Seobuk Hospital in Eunpyeong District, northern Seoul, to take in critically ill patients as intensive care units in hospitals have exceeded capacity. [YONHAP]

Hospitals scramble to make more room for critically ill

The national health care system is struggling to get a grasp on the situation as the recent surge in daily Covid-19 cases quickly deplete I.C.U. beds in hospitals across the nation. A total of 78.8 percent of intensive care unit (I.C.U.) beds...

2021.12.2

People line up at a Covid-19 testing site at Seoul Plaza in central Seoul Wednesday, after health authorities announced that Korea reached a record high of 4,116 daily cases. [YONHAP]

Daily Covid cases hit another record, 4,116

Korea reported 4,116 new Covid-19 cases Wednesday, a new record, with the number of critically ill patients also hitting an all-time high of 586.

2021.11.24

An official answers the phone while monitoring CCTVs at a community treatment center for Covid-19 patients who are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms in Yeongdeungpo District, western Seoul, Sunday. [NEWS1]

Hospital beds are new front in Korea's Covid war

As new Covid-19 infections remained in the 3000s for a fifth consecutive day, 804 patients were on standby for hospital beds in the Seoul metropolitan area Sunday.

2021.11.21

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