AstraZeneca vaccine produced in Italy will be introduced into Korea as a supply of Covax. Imported AZ vaccines are introduced through Emergency Use Authorization as they do not have domestic permission.

The pan-government vaccine introduction TF (Team Leader: Kwon Deok-cheol, Minister of Health and Welfare) said 835,000 doses of the Covax AstraZeneca vaccine will arrive at 19:00 tomorrow (13th).

Adding 7.23 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines, which will be supplied from May 14 to early June, and 835,000 doses, which will be supplied this time, a total of 806.5 million doses, and 5 million doses of vaccines, will fully support the first vaccination target of 13 million people in the first