SEOUL — Korea’s first dose vaccination rate reached 29.8 percent as of Saturday, health officials said Sunday.
So far, nearly 15.3 million people across the country have received their first jabs since the vaccination drive kicked off on Feb. 26. Of them, 4.6 million, or 9 percent of the population, have been fully inoculated.
Health authorities aim to administer the first rounds of COVID-19 vaccine shots for 70 percent of the population or 36 million people by September, aiming to have 70 percent of the population completely vaccinated by November.
But while vaccinations gain momentum, the country’s number of new infections has not gone down. …
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