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President Yoon Suk Yeol, right, sends off health care workers who fought on the front lines of the Covid-19 pandemic after a meeting of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters at the Yongsan presidential office in central Seoul on Thursday, where he declared a lowering of the national crisis level for Covid-19. [PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE]

Korean government declares end to Covid-19 emergency

Korea declared an end to Covid-19 as a health emergency, lifting nearly all Covid-19 restrictions after three years starting June 1 and marking a de facto transition to an endemic disease.

2023.5.11

Teaching staff at Samil Technical High School in Suwon, Gyeonggi, on Feb. 27 remove partitions installed at cafeterias as a safety measure to prevent Covid-19, ahead of the new academic semester. [YONHAP]

Covid partitions now a huge plastic waste problem for Korean schools

Plastic partitions installed at school cafeterias and classrooms to prevent the spread of Covid-19 have now become a huge heap of garbage schools are struggling to properly dispose of.

2023.3.7

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Workers shut down a testing cite for Covid-19 in Gwangju on Monday as Typhoon Hinnamnor approaches Korea. [YONHAP]

Covid cases dip ahead of restriction-free Chuseok holidays

Korea will welcome its first national holiday without social-distancing measures since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic this Chuseok. The Chuseok harvest holidays, starting this Friday, follow a dip in the country’s daily Covid-19 infection...

2022.9.5

People in masks walk down the street in Myeong-dong, central Seoul, on Wednesday, as the government announced that more than 100,000 people tested positive for the coronavirus the day before. [YONHAP]

Daily Covid infections crash 100,000 barrier again

A total of 100,285 new coronavirus cases were detected nationwide Tuesday, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the first time since mid-April that the daily count reached six figures.

2022.7.27

Medical workers move a Covid-19 patient at Hyemin Hospital in Gwangjin District, eastern Seoul, on Tuesday. [YONHAP]

Thanks to BA.5 variant, new infections near 100,000

Korea’s daily Covid-19 cases soared to nearly 100,000 on Tuesday as the country enters its first wave of the pandemic without any major restrictions.

2022.7.26

People wait at a Covid-19 testing site in Gangnam District, southern Seoul, on Sunday amid a rising number of infections across the nation. [YONHAP]

Covid-19 daily case total nearly doubles in one-week period

More than 40,000 people across the nation tested positive for the coronavirus on Saturday, nearly double the number from a week before, as new variants continue to rapidly spread.

2022.7.17

A Covid-19 screening center in Songpa District, southern Seoul, is crowded with people trying to get tested on Thursday. [YONHAP]

Looking back at how Korea fought first Covid waves

The country has undergone five virus waves, and is probably in the beginning of a sixth created by the BA.5 Omicron subvariant.

2022.7.14

President Yoon Suk-yeol takes questions from reporters Tuesday morning at the presidential office in Yongsan, central Seoul, farther away from press than usual, resuming such “doorstepping” sessions just one day after they were suspended. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]

Yoon Suk-yeol can't break his morning habit with the press

President Yoon Suk-yeol took questions from reporters on the way to work Tuesday, just a day after such "doorstepping" sessions were suspended due to Covid-19 worries.

2022.7.12