An influenza epidemic has been sweeping the country, marking the highest number of cases since 2016, according to statistics from health authorities on Tuesday.
Korea postponed downgrading the status of Covid-19 to that of the common flu as the country confronts a surge in new cases. A total of 64,155 people tested positive last Wednesday, the first time in seven months that daily infections surpassed...
Anyone who tests positive for Covid-19 will have to quarantine for five days, not seven, from early May.
It will be the first time in two years and five months that masks are not required on public transportation.
The government should be careful not to return to the draconian control of people’s daily lives if autonomous quarantine fails to curb potential risk factors.
We hope that the new quarantine guidelines the government announces today include strengthened measures against passengers from China.
North Korea exploited public interest in the deadly crowd crush in Seoul in October to conduct cyber attacks on South Korean targets, Google said on Thursday.
More than 47,000 people tested positive for the coronavirus on Saturday, about 1,000 more than a week before as the nation enters yet another wave of the pandemic.
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