Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine has begun to be approved in Korea. If Moderna vaccine is approved, it will be the fourth vaccine after AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Janssen vaccines.

The MFDS announced on the 12th that GC Pharma has applied for approval as an import item for COVID-19 vaccine from Moderna in the US.

Moderna vaccine is one of the vaccines announced by the government and was developed in a two-doses (28 days apart). It is the same platform as Pfizer’s Comirnaty, which is approved in Korea as a 'mRNA vaccine' that induces an immune response by injecting the antigenic gene of COVID-19 in the form of mRNA to generate antigenic protein in the body.

The government announced