New GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title as the Most Registered Blood Donation with over 70,000 Blood Donors in South Korea
October 21: Korean volunteers were listed in the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS for the challenge of most people signing up as blood donors online in 24 hours. On the 1st of October, the youth volunteer group ‘WE ARE ONE’ completed online blood donation applications for 71,121 volunteers for 24 hours to challenge the World Record.The record challenge of the 70,000 blood donors was prepared to raise awareness of the importance of blood donation to overcome the blood shortage caused by COVID-19, led by We Are One, a Korean youth organization conducting the ‘Life ON Youth ON’ blood donation campaign.According to the Global Status Report on Blood Safety and Availability published by the WHO in June 2022, shortages of blood have impacted all countries during the COVID-19...
