And today, vaccines are arriving at hospitals and clinics.
This initial batch will be enough for close to 800-thousand people.
For more, let s turn to our Eum Ji-young who s at a clinic south of Seoul.
Ji-young, how are the preparations going there on the ground? Devin, I m outside a health center in Suwon city, Gyeonggi-do Province.
This is where some of the first inoculations will be administered at 9 AM sharp on Friday.
The first doses of the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca arrived here at around 9AM this morning and are being stored here, ready to be administered. The truck with the vaccines arrived under escort by the military and police.
The firm is a South Korean drugmaker that is producing AstraZeneca s vaccine under a partnership deal.
For more, we connect live to our Bae Eun-ji.
Eun-ji, give us more details about how the vaccine is transported. Mark, I m standing at the back gate of the vaccine manufacturing plant of SK Bioscience, where a truck carrying shots for 163-thousand people departed about an hour ago. This area was under strict military and police guard.
There were personnel outside before the truck carrying the vaccines left and the truck had a heavy poilce and military escort.
Since yesterday, trucks carrying vaccines have been leaving this building in the city of Andong in Gyeongsangbuk-do Province… 270 kilometers southeast of Seoul.