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Medical staff transfer a patient at Seoul Medical Center in Jungnang District, eastern Seoul on Monday. To free up intensive care beds, from Monday, the government made Covid-19 patients whose symptoms have improved move out of I.C.U.s earlier. [NEWS1]

Older patients recover from Covid and then relapse

A growing number of elderly in Korea are being rushed to emergency rooms after thinking they recovered from Covid-19.

2022.3.21

Boxes of Paxlovid, Pfizer’s oral treatment for Covid-19 [NEWS1]

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Despite being introduced as a game changer in the pandemic, Pfizer's oral Covid-19 pill Paxlovid showed a low prescription rate in Korea. According to health authorities on Wednesday, only 39 people were prescribed with Paxlovid during the three...

2022.1.25

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Covid pill records dismal prescription rates

Despite being introduced as a game changer in the pandemic, Pfizer's oral Covid-19 pill Paxlovid showed a low prescription rate in Korea.

2022.1.19

First Paxlovid prescriptions prove successful overall

Korea’s first recipient of oral Covid-19 pill Paxlovid said his symptoms went away in less than two days.

2022.1.18

This image provided by Pfizer shows the company's Covid-19 Paxlovid pills, which will be prescribed in Korea starting Friday. [NEWS1]

Pfizer's Covid pills going to patients on Friday

Covid-19 pills will start being prescribed Friday to patients with weak immune systems and people over 64.

2022.1.12

People scan QR codes for entry into a shopping mall in Seoul on Sunday. Starting Monday, vaccine passes will be required at large discount supermarkets and department stores. [YONHAP]

Vaccine pass system extends to big stores on Monday

Starting Monday, people will have to present proof of Covid-19 vaccination or a negative PCR test conducted within 48 hours to shop in department stores and large supermarkets.

2022.1.9

Korea gave emergency use approval of U.S. drugmaker Pfizer’s oral treatment for Covid-19, Paxlovid, on Monday. The antiviral treatment, pictured in a photo provided by Pfizer in October, can become available as early as next month. [AP/YONHAP]

Everything to know about Pfizer's Paxlovid pill

Korea this week gave emergency-use approval of U.S. drugmaker Pfizer’s oral treatment for Covid-19, Paxlovid, the first antiviral pill approved in the country to treat symptoms of the coronavirus which may become available domestically next month.

2021.12.28

Medical staff members make preparations at the intensive care unit (I.C.U.) at Hyemin Hospital in Gwangjin District, eastern Seoul, on Monday. The hospital was among the first in Seoul to be designated as a Covid-19-only hospital earlier this month, as the number of patients in critical condition spiked and hospitals ran short of I.C.U. beds. [YONHAP]

Covid treatments will be coming to Korea

Korea sealed deals with Pfizer and Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) to purchase enough Covid-19 pills to treat 604,000 people, the Health Ministry announced Monday. “We signed contracts to purchase anti-viral Covid-19 pills for a total of 604,000...

2021.12.27

Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum says that Korea is the final stage of signing a contract with U.S. drugmaker Pfizer to purchase its antiviral pills to treat Covid-19 during a coronavirus response meeting at the government complex in central Seoul Friday. [NEWS1]

Korea in 'final stage' of deal to buy Pfizer's Covid-19 pill

Korea is in the “final stage” of signing a deal with U.S. drugmaker Pfizer to purchase its antiviral pills to treat Covid-19, said Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum Friday, as the country broke its record high of critically ill patients.

2021.12.24