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Additional Shipment of Pfizer Vaccine Arrives

Written: 2021-07-28 09:19:58Updated: 2021-07-28 09:57:39

Additional Shipment of Pfizer Vaccine Arrives

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More than two-point-six million doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in South Korea. 

According to the state vaccine task force, two million-679-thousand doses of the two-shot vaccine arrived at Incheon International Airport early on Wednesday.

South Korea and Pfizer earlier signed a direct contract to secure 66 million doses that can vaccinate 33 million people, with about seven million doses shipped to the country in the first half. 

The nation is receiving a certain amount of Pfizer vaccines every week.
 
The task force said 101-thousand doses of Johnson & Johnson's Janssen vaccine will also arrive on Thursday afternoon. 
 
South Korea has secured five types of COVID-19 vaccines, enough to inoculate 100 million people.

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