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South Korean President Moon Jae-in at an urgent Covid-19 response meeting on Monday. YONHAP NEWS AGENCY/THE KOREA HERALD
South Korea eyes production hub for Covid-19 vaccines
Tue, 4 May 2021
South Korean President Moon Jae-in on May 3 stressed the country’s possible role as a production hub for Covid-19 vaccines, pledging efforts to ramp up local production, including securing more licensing deals with global vaccine makers.
“Our nation, boasting the world’s second-largest production capacity of biomedicines, is getting renewed attention as a potential global hub for vaccine production,” Moon said in an urgent Covid-19 response meeting with related government offices.
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SEOUL (Sputnik) - South Korean President Moon Jae-in instructed his aides to examine the possibility of using the Russian vaccine against COVID-19 Sputnik V in the country, Yonhap news agency reported on Wednesday, citing a source in the presidency.
The government is already reviewing Sputnik V, in particular its side effects. Given the concerns about the supply of vaccines, the advisers expressed the view that it was necessary to consider the introduction of a Russian vaccine, to which President Moon Jae-in said: Do so , a source in the presidency said.