The government is considering imposing a price cap on Covid-19 self-test kits as supply falls short of demand for the kits, causing their market price to soar.
SD Biosensor's Covid-19 self-test kit received an emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the company said Monday.
SD Biosensor announced Tuesday its Covid-19 test kits are effective at detecting all Covid-19 variants, including Omicron.
Covid-19 self-test kits are fast, convenient and cheap. They also might be all but useless.
A store employee stacks Covid-19 self testing kits at a 7-Eleven store in central Seoul on Wednesday. The number of people confirmed to have contracted Covid-19 reached the second-highest daily figure on Tuesday.
The government on Friday gave conditional approvals to two over-the-counter Covid-19 self-test kits.
Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon and ministers of the Moon Jae-in administration engaged Tuesday in heated debates over the Covid-19 response measures and real estate policy at the weekly cabinet meeting.
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