SEOUL — South Korea launched its COVID-19 inoculation campaign on Friday, with shots to be administered in some 200 nursing homes, in an effort that officials call the first step in returning the country to more normal life.
The first doses of AstraZeneca’s vaccine began to be given at 9 a.m. to nursing home workers and some patients at facilities across the country of about 52 million.
On Saturday, authorities plan to start giving 117,000 doses of the vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE supplied through COVAX, an international COVID-19 vaccine-sharing program, to about 55,000 healthcare workers in coronavirus treatment facilities.
The national pharmaceutical p…
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