The Minister of Health and Welfare, Kwon Deok-chul signed a vaccine swap agreement today (6th), which will receive 700,000 pfizer vaccines from the Israeli government in July and return them sequentially from September to November.

Recently, the Israeli government was looking for ways to make effective use of the vaccine, with some of the Pfizer vaccines (valid July 31st) expected to remain in use in July.

The vaccine exchange between Korea and Israel will take place in consideration of the cold chain management base and the fact that the vaccination can be completed in a short period due to the high participation rate of vaccination. Since the announcement of the expiration date in Israe