The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced that it will conduct a full investigation on all of the projects it had supported for the clinical trial research of COVID-19 treatments and vaccines by the first quarter of next year.

Since 2020, a total of 10 companies were selected for the government's COVID-19 treatment and vaccine clinical support project. Although these companies received state support for clinical research, only two succeeded in commercialization. Due to this lack of results, the question of whether the state’s support was excessive has been rising.

With the People Power Party determining the project as a project badly managed example of the previous administration,