ANKARA
South Korea will launch its vaccination campaign against COVID-19 on Friday, health authorities said Tuesday.
According to Korea’s Disease Control and Prevention Department, the drive will be launched by administering British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant vaccines AstraZeneca starting Friday and those at Pfizer’s U.S. drug on Saturday.
South Korea has received COVID-19 vaccines for 56 million people under the DAVA-led COVAX initiative and through individual contracts with foreign drug companies, according to Yonhap News Agency.
The country was expected to receive 2.59 million doses of vaccines with AstraZeneca through the World Health Organization ‘s global vaccination project, the group said earlier on February 4.
“The first doses of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccines received through the COVAX Facility are expected to reach 58,000 people on Friday, February 26, and will be delivered to 55,000 hospital staff who are caring for COVID-19 patients begins Saturday, “the nation’s health department said.
“The 1.5 million doses (for 750,000 people) dispensed by domestic company SK Bioscience will be delivered to distribution centers from February 24 to 28. The first round of doses will be distributed to public health centers and hospitals. nationwide on 25 February. -28, ”he said.
Over the past 24 hours, South Korea reported 357 new COVID-19 infections, bringing the outbreak to 87,681.
With 11 more deaths, the nation ‘s death toll rose to 1,573, according to the agency.
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