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S Korea reports first two cases of delta plus COVID-19 variant
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], August 4 (ANI): South Korea has reported two cases of highly transmissible delta plus variant of the coronavirus.
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South Korea to extend current social distancing measures for 2 weeks
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], February 26 (ANI/Sputnik): South Korea will extend its current social distancing measures for another two weeks over the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun said on Friday.
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Seoul may consider purchasing Sputnik V, other vaccines due to new coronav
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], February 8 (ANI/Sputnik): Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said that the South Korean government would likely to consider buying Russia's Sputnik V and other coronavirus vaccines to curb the spread of new virus variants and forestall delays in deliverie
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Hundreds of inmates with COVID-19 moved from Seoul facility to Cheongsong
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], December 28 (ANI/Sputnik): Hundreds of prisoners with COVID-19 at a Seoul Dongbu detention centre were moved to a Cheongsong prison in the southeastern region, prompting consternation among local residents wary of further spread of the virus, the media reported on Monday
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S Korea to secure COVID-19 vaccines for 88 pc of population
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], December 8 (ANI/Xinhua): South Korea planned to secure COVID-19 vaccines from foreign drugmakers for 44 million people, or 88 per cent of the country's total population, the health ministry said Tuesday.
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South Korea's capital region, Gwangju City toughen social distancing rules
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], November 18 (ANI/Sputnik): The Seoul metropolitan area and the southern city of Gwangju have adopted regulations to enforce stricter social distancing amid a spike in the number of coronavirus cases, South Korean news agency Yonhap reported on Wednesday.
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South Korea's Prime Minister urges for COVID-19 caution ahead of Halloween
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], October 30 (ANI/Sputnik): South Korean Prime Minister Chung Sye-Kyun has asked the government on Friday to ramp up counter-coronavirus efforts so that the upcoming Halloween celebrations during the weekend do not result in new hotbeds of COVID-19 in the country.
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South Korea reports 76 more COVID-19 cases
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Pyongyang [South Korea], October 19 (ANI/Xinhua): South Korea reported 76 more cases of the COVID-19 as of midnight on Sunday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 25,275.
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Alarming spike in daily COVID-19 infections reported in South Korea
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], October 13 (ANI/Sputnik): South Korea registered 102 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, marking the first time since the start of this month that over 100 daily cases were reported, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC).
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North Korea reports first 'suspected' COVID-19 case, imposes maximum emerg
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], July 26 (ANI): North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Sunday took a "maximum emergency system" decision after a defector returned from the South with coronavirus symptoms.
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S. Korea records over 100 new COVID-19 cases, count reaches 14,092
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], July 25 (Sputnik/ANI): The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in South Korea has risen by 113 to 14,092 over the past day, marking the biggest daily increase since April, the Health Ministry's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said on Saturday.
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Highly-contagious GH strain of coronavirus spreading in South Korea
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], July 6 (Sputnik/ANI): All recent coronavirus clusters in South Korea are seeded mostly by the highly-infectious GH strain of the virus, which is believed to spread six times faster than other types of COVID-19, the Health Ministry's Centres for Disease Control and Preven
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