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Gov’t tracks down Shincheonji adherents and many feel ill
Over half of some 200,000 followers of the Shincheonji church in Korea outside Daegu have been contacted by local government offices and asked about possible symptoms of the coronavirus as of Thursday midnight, the government announced Friday morning…
Feb 28,2020
Biggest daily jump brings total to 1,766
Korea announced 505 new coronavirus infections Thursday, the highest amount for a single day, as government authorities tried tracking down followers of the Christian sect that has seen many victims. Total infections rose to 1,766 by Thursday at 4…
Feb 28,2020
Embassies alert expats on virus outbreak here
Embassies in Korea are taking measures to protect their nationals against the coronavirus outbreak by providing updates in their languages on their websites and on social media platforms regarding the changing situations of the virus containment effo…
Feb 28,2020
Healthy and free
The third batch of 148 Koreans airlifted on Feb. 12 from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak, are discharged from 14-day isolation at the Korea Defense Language Institute in Icheon, Gyeonggi, on Thursday. They tested negati…
Feb 28,2020
Moms-to-be caught in crossfire of coronavirus
When the Catholic University of Korea’s Eunpyeong St. Mary’s Hospital shut down its emergency room and temporarily stopped providing outpatient services after its 34-year-old employee was confirmed as infected with the coronavirus, expectant mothers …
Feb 28,2020
Minister of health faces backlash from the UFP
Minister of Health and Welfare Park Neung-hoo is in hot water over a comment he made Wednesday suggesting the main cause of the coronavirus outbreak in Korea was not Chinese people but Koreans who traveled through China. The remark emerged in a pa…
Feb 28,2020
Dousing disinfectant
Military trucks are mobilized to decontaminate a village in Gijang County, Busan, Thursday as the coronavirus has quickly spread across the nation in just a month after the first infection in Korea was reported on Jan. 20. [SONG BONG-GEUN] …
Feb 28,2020
Restricting rallies
Workers hired by Seoul city government and Jongno District Office remove makeshift tents set up in the vicinity of the Central Government Complex in Seoul on Thursday to try and prevent any rallies in the midst of the novel coronavirus outbreak. [NEW…
Feb 28,2020
Infections jump by 334, largest daily increase, totaling 1,595
Korean health officials announced 334 new coronavirus infections Thursday morning as government authorities tracked down a list of followers of the Shincheonji religion. It was the highest daily peak so far – with an update scheduled for the…
Feb 27,2020
Patient numbers exceed 1,200, fatalities reach 12
Korea’s coronavirus cases spiked to 1,261 Wednesday afternoon, up 284 from the day before and the first breach of the thousand mark. One more death was reported in Daegu, bringing total fatalities to 12. Among the latest group of infected p…
Feb 27,2020
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