South Korea has announced that on Tuesday they have signed a contract for 44 million doses of covid-19 vaccine for next year, but they will not rush with the vaccination, to figure out how the virus works.

(Time Magazine)

Even if South Korea is fighting with the huge number of infections, which threats that they will damage the health system of this country, they have decided to be patient, and delay the vaccination.

South Korean government has ordered 20 million doses of AstraZenece, Pfizer and Moderna and four million doses of  Johnson & Johnson Janssena. Health minister Park Neung-Hoo has announced that this will be enough to cover 32million infections, Reuters writes. Ten million more doses will be ordered trough the global initiative for getting the vaccine from WHO, known as COVAX, added minister.