SEOUL. — South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in called on Wednesday for seamless preparations for coronavirus vaccinations, as a refrigerated van drove in convoy with several military and police escort cars in a drill at the capital’s airport.
Despite initial success in taming earlier outbreaks, South Korea is grappling with its third and largest wave of infections, which has fueled criticism that it was slow to secure vaccines for a population of 52 million.
But no exact date has been set for the arrival of vaccines and this month’s start of an inoculation campaign targeting about 50,000 frontline health workers and the elderly that aims to cover about 10 million high-risk people by Ju…
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