On the 19th, an additional 438,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, which South Korea directly contracted with Pfizer, will arrive in South Korea. It is part of the 7 million units that are scheduled to be supplied in the first half of the year, which are received in small quantities every week.

Lee Sang-won, head of the Central Disease Control Headquarters epidemiological investigation and analysis team, said in a regular COVID-19 briefing on the 18th, "438,000 doses of contracted Pfizer vaccines will arrive at Incheon Airport tomorrow as scheduled. The rest will be supplied every week without a hitch." This supply is for the third week of May. It is expected to arrive at Incheon International Airport in the