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South Korea to get more Moderna COVID shots in boost to vaccination effort

South Korea to get more Moderna COVID shots in boost to vaccination effort

The Peninsula
Sunday, August 22, 2021 12:22:35 PM UTC

SEOUL: South Korea's health ministry said on Sunday that Moderna Inc will supply the country with 7.01 million doses of coronavirus vaccines by the first week of September, following a government request to speed up delivery.

Some 1.01 million doses are expected to arrive on Monday, the ministry said, with another 6 million to be supplied sequentially. Moderna delivered 1.3 million doses earlier this month. It had at the time informed South Korea that it would only be able to deliver less than half the 8.5 million doses it had been due to ship in August.
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