South Korea will test every prisoner in the country for Covid-19
From CNN s Jake Kwon in Seoul, South Korea
Medical workers prepare to conduct Covid-19 tests on all inmates at Dongbu Detention Center in Seoul, South Korea on January 5. Yonhap/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
South Korea will test every prisoner held in the country s 52 detention facilities for Covid-19 after a cluster of cases emerged at a detention center in the capital Seoul.
Health Ministry official Yoon Tae-ho announced the plan at a briefing Wednesday. Yoon said that prisoners at 11 facilities had already been tested and, so far, no positive cases had been reported. Prisoners at the other 41 facilities have not yet been tested, Yoon said.
Canada gets first batch of 168,000 Moderna Covid-19 vaccine doses
Henrietta Strickland
The first shipments of Moderna s COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in Canada, a little over 24 hours after it was approved for use in this country.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine must be kept at a temperature well below zero, so it is being stored in special freezers at the National Cold Chain Centre, reports BreakingNews.ie.
Health Minister Stephen Donnelly said that
vaccinations will begin in four days.
CEO of the Health Service Executive Paul Reid shared a video to Twitter of the cargo arriving in the afternoon before it is distributed around the country.