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![Staff at the Busan Nambu Office of Education in Busan sort Covid-19 home test kits to be distributed to schools ahead of the new semester Wednesday. Over 3.62 million test kits will be distributed for free to students and faculty in Busan through March amid the Omicron surge. [SONG BONG-GEUN]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/11632324.jpg?imageId=11632324&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Models pose with Humasis Covid-19 test kits at Emart’s Seongsu branch in eastern Seoul on Thursday. Emart is the first discount mart in Korea selling the test kits. [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/11161350.jpg?imageId=11161350&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![A Marine receives an AstraZeneca vaccine shot at the Jinhae Naval Base in Changwon, South Gyeongsang, on Wednesday, as the country began inoculating troops age 30 and older. No specific plan has been made for around 455,000 soldiers under the age of 30. [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/10764306.jpg?imageId=10764306&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, speaking at a news conference on April 20, announces that the state had received 500,000 Covid-19 test kits from South Korea with the help of his wife, Yumi Hogan, right. [AP/YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/10336967.jpg?imageId=10336967&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![The photo shows antigen test kit ’Covid-19 Ag Test“ which Humedix will be providing to the global market. [HUMEDIX]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/11239709.jpg?imageId=11239709&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![A lab researcher at the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology demonstrates a Covid-19 antibody test kit at the institute in Daejeon on Tuesday. According to the lab, the test kit accuracy on those who have been infected was 94.4 percent, while the accuracy on confirming the negative status of subjects is 100 percent. The test only took 15 minutes. The Korean Ministry of Science and ICT plans to apply for Emergency Use Authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration based on the test results. [NEWS1]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/11688230.jpg?imageId=11688230&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Ambassador of the European Union to Korea Michael Reiterer speaks with the Korea JoongAng Daily on Wednesday about European Union-Korea cooperation on the Covid-19 outbreak and celebrations planned for Europe Day, which falls on Saturday. [PARK SANG-MOON]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/11856004.jpg?imageId=11856004&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![President Moon Jae-in, center, examines a Seegene research facility during his visit to the company’s headquarters in Seoul in March. Moon visited the local diagnostic kit manufacturing company following his phone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump hours earlier. [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/10788178.jpg?imageId=10788178&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)