SEOUL—About 100 South Korean athletes and coaches traveling to Tokyo for the Olympics received their first doses of coronavirus vaccines on Thursday, as the country’s inoculation program struggles with a shortage of supplies.
Vaccinations are not mandatory for participants in the Games, set to run from July 23 to Aug 8 after being pushed back from last year because of the pandemic, but they are recommended.
“Getting this shot makes me feel the Olympics is truly around the corner,” taekwondo player Lee Dae-Hoon said at a public clinic in Seoul, the capital, adding that he did not experience any unusual symptoms immediately.
Table tennis exponent Lee Sang-su, who said he fel…
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