TAIWAN PRESIDENT REASSURES PUBLIC OF HANDLING COVID-19 CASES WELL

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• Taiwan president reassures public of handling COVID-19 cases well.
• Taiwan reported 6 local COVID-19 cases recently.
• 5 cases were discovered in a gaming cafe in Yilan county on Taiwan's eastern coast.
• On Tue...

S. KOREA GOVT. TO GIVE SECOND CHANCE TO SUDENTS TO TAKE MEDICAL LICENSING EXAM

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• S. Korea Govt. to give second chance to students to take medical licensing exam.
• Around 2,700 fourth-year medical students had boycotted the exams last year in September.
• The govt. was asked to withdraw its plan to increa...

CORONAVIRUS RESPITE UNDER CLOSE SCANNER AMIDST S KOREA REINING IN DISTANCING MEASURES

• South Korea sidelined most of its physical distancing restrictions Monday, after two national holiday weekends passed without a spurt in known infections -- so far.
• Korea conducted 5,127 tests Sunday and detected 97 more cases of the novel coronavirus, according to the Korea Di...

HEALTH MINISTER’S CALL TO END STRIKE BY AGITATING DOCTORS

• Korea’s apex health official reiterated its request to the medical practitioners to cancel their strike set for Friday.
• The doctors said they would keep a one-day walk-out to mark the government’s bundle of health reforms that were proclaimed last month.

Primary care given decent share of funds

A new report, prepared by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), compares key measures of Australia’s health expenditure with the other 35 Organizations. For most of the OCED, hospitals represented the highest proportion of healthcare expenditure in 2016. Australia spent 44.1% of ...