In the January-April period, exports of medicines to Australia surged more than 100 times compared to the same period last year-on-year. In the pharmaceutical bio industry, it is interpreted that the moderna vaccine produced by Samsung BioLogics was exported to Australia in earnest, leading to an increase in total exports.

Exports to Germany, which was previously the largest exporter, fell by one-fifth in a year. Exports to China and Japan also fell sharply. As the COVID-19 crisis enters a calming phase, analysts say changes are coming to major drug exporters.

◆Export to Australia 3.4 billion → 420 billion won in a year, 95% of them are vaccines

According to the Korea