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SEOUL – South Korea has arranged to buy coronavirus vaccines for 23 million more people, its prime minister said on Tuesday, a day after authorities said delays and efficiency problems meant fewer people would be vaccinated in the first quarter of the year word.
The negotiations include Novavax vaccines for 20 million people and Pfizer products for 3 million, Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun said during a meeting that was broadcast.
“The government has worked to bring in sufficient early supplies, but our vaccination plan for the first half is growing more and more due to production issues with global drug manufacturers and international competition to take in more vaccines,” he said.
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With a population of 52 million, South Korea has already secured enough doses for 56 million people from COVAX, Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson and is due to begin the first vaccination phase on 26 February.
South Korea has arranged to buy coronavirus vaccines for 23 million more people, its prime minister said on Tuesday, a day after authorities said delays and efficiency problems meant fewer people would be vaccinated in the first quarter of the year. . (Bl
On Monday, authorities said they would not use AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine on people aged 65 and over, reversing an earlier decision, and scaling back initial vaccination targets due to delayed shipments of the global vaccination system COVAX.
The country has inoculated its target for the first quarter from 1.3 million to less than 760,000.
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The director of the Korean Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA), Jeong Eun-kyeong, said that the adjustments in the first quarter were not expected to achieve a “herd immunity” by November, although some independent health experts doubt the feasibility of that timeline.
The KDCA reported 457 additional cases of coronavirus at midnight on Monday, bringing the total of South Korea to 84,325 with 1,534 deaths.