Direct Contracted 1.1 Million Doses of AZ Vaccine to be Additionally Shipped Tomorrow

Scheduled Shipment from SK Bio Andong Plant

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[Asia Economy Reporter Ki Ha-young] An additional 1.1 million doses of AstraZeneca (AZ) COVID-19 vaccine will be supplied.

According to the COVID-19 Vaccination Response Promotion Team on the 16th, 1.1 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine are scheduled to be shipped on the 17th from SK Bioscience factory in Andong, Gyeongbuk. This vaccine is part of the 20 million doses directly contracted by our government with AstraZeneca.

Including this batch, a total of 11.516 million doses of vaccines including AstraZeneca, Pfizer, and Janssen have been supplied domestically as of the 17th of this month. Previously, 400,000 doses of Janssen vaccine provided by the U.S. government arrived at Incheon International Airport the afternoon before.

The government plans to additionally import about 18.6 million doses of Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Moderna vaccines by the end of this month. This includes 835,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine expected to arrive this month through the international vaccine joint procurement project 'COVAX Facility.'

However, since the U.S. pharmaceutical company Moderna has stated that due to laboratory issues related to vaccine production, it can supply less than half of the planned doses for this month, there is a possibility that the vaccine supply plan may change.

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