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No more swabs up the nose if alternative tests approved

Covid-19 tests are evolving and becoming less invasive and easier to administer.

2022-04-24

Back to school?

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.

2022-02-23

[WORD_ON_THE_WEB] 'I'm worried we'll have to line up to buy kits like we did masks'

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.

2022-02-16

A confused response (KOR)

The number of new infections of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 soared to more than 50,000 for five consecutive days until Monday. As critically-ill patients also shot up to more than 300 after 17 days, ICU beds are being filled...

2022-02-15

A confused response

The number of new infections of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 soared to more than 50,000 for five consecutive days until Monday. As critically-ill patients also shot up to more than 300 after 17 days, ICU beds are being filled...

2022-02-14

Covid self-test kit from SD Biosensor receives U.S. FDA EUA

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.

2021-12-27

[NEWS IN FOCUS] Covid home test kits may cause spread of virus rather than prevent it

Covid-19 self-test kits are fast, convenient and cheap. They also might be all but useless.

2021-08-28

Sales set to soar

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.

2021-07-07

Get your test kits here

Models pose with Humasis Covid-19 test kits at Emart’s Seongsu branch in eastern Seoul on Thursday.

2021-05-06

Covid quarantine to be exempted, but only for a few

Fully vaccinated people will be exempted from the mandatory 14-day quarantine after entering from abroad or coming in contact with a Covid-19 patient starting May 5 — but only if they got the shots in Korea.

2021-04-28