The first batch of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech is arriving in South Korea this Friday lunchtime.
Arirang s Jang Tae-hyun is at Incheon International Airport to tell us more about how things are going.
So, Tae-hyun, has the Pfizer vaccine arrived in South Korea? Hi Mark, the Pfizer vaccine is scheduled to arrive in the country at 10 minutes past 12, so any moment now. Through the COVAX facility, 117-thousand doses of the vaccine are coming.
Since people need two shots each, this batch will be enough for 58,500 people.
This batch coming through the COVAX facility is not part of the 13 million Pfizer vaccines that South Korea is buying directly from the company.
South Korea has kicked off its highly-anticipated nationwide COVID-19 vaccination program with the first shots administered around an hour ago.
President Moon Jae-in also visited a local health center to see the first person there get the vaccine.
For details, we have our presidential office correspondent Kim Min-ji joining us live from the Blue House.
Min-ji, tell us more about the president s visit. President Moon Jae-in visited a health center in Mapo-gu District in Seoul to check out the first inoculations.
COVID-19 vaccinations started today nationwide at 9AM, Korea time, just over an hour ago. President Moon looked around the vaccination zone within the health center and was briefed on the preparations before he saw the first person get his jab.