The U.S. and its Quad allies had said they would help manufacture Novavax and Johnson & Johnson vaccines for primary use in Southeast Asia, which has seen a resurgence of covid infections.
Reuters
A South Korean mayor who had boasted of his city’s ability to secure Covid-19 vaccines has publicly apologised after it was revealed he almost got taken in by fraudsters.
Kwon Young-jin, mayor of Daegu, told reporters on May 31 that a foreign trading company contacted by an association of medical institutions in the city of 2.5 million had promised to provide 30 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to South Korea ’s government within three weeks.
The opposition politician had been highly critical of President Moon Jae-in ’s efforts to secure vaccines, writing “headless politicians, incompetent government, coward scientists” on his Facebook page last month following Moon’s summit with US President Joe Biden , where a donation of more than 1 million Johnson & Johnson vaccines from Washington to Seoul was agreed.