SEOUL — South Korea’s foreign minister said on Wednesday he hopes the United States will help Seoul address its COVID-19 vaccine shortage as a return in favor of test kits and masks it sent to Washington earlier in the pandemic.
The request comes as the South Korean government has come under fire from local media for not doing enough to secure enough vaccines early. It has inoculated just 3% of its population due to tight global supply and limited access.
“We have been stressing to the U.S. that ‘a friend in need is a friend indeed’,” Chung Eui-yong told reporters at the Kwanhun Club, a representative association of journalists in South Korea.
He said South Korea had airli…
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