Nursing home visits start anew on Tuesday

Nursing homes will start allowing visitors again Tuesday after a more than two-month ban as Covid-19 cases swelled during the summer.

2022-10-03

Authorities on guard against Covid spread over Chuseok

A ban on visits to nursing homes will remain during the upcoming Chuseok harvest holidays in a precaution against Covid-19, the government announced Wednesday.

2022-08-24

Nursing home visits stopped as virus wave grows

Bracing for a surge of up to 300,000 new Covid-19 cases a day, health authorities on Wednesday announced additional containment measures such as new testing centers and reimposing a ban on face-to-face meetings with patients in nursing homes.

2022-07-20

Covid cases drop to lowest level in five months

Covid-19 cases in Korea dropped to their lowest level in five months on Monday.

2022-06-20

Weeklong quarantine to stay for another month, criteria not yet met

Korea decided to keep the mandatory seven-day quarantine for Covid-19 patients for another four weeks due to fears that rolling back the mandate could accelerate a possible virus resurgence.

2022-06-19

Cohort isolation can be a death sentence for patients

As the daily coronavirus count rises in Korea, nursing homes and hospitals are facing outbreaks among their most vulnerable patients — and are unable to send them to dedicated Covid-19 hospitals because they are filled up.

2021-11-18

The long journey of Korejskij

In the 1860s, Koreans started to migrate to Primorsky Krai in Russia. By the early 1900s, about 20 percent of the population were from Joseon (1392-1910). Russians called them “Korejskij,” meaning Korean in Russian.After a...

2020-10-13

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