Modern will supply 40 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to South Korea

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FILE PHOTO: Michelle Chester, DNP, Director, Employee Health Services, Northwell Shows Modern Coronavirus Disease Vaccine (COVID-19) at Northwell Health’s Longwell Jewish Valley Stream Hospital in New York, USA, 21 December 2020. REUTERS / Eduardo Munoz / Pool

(Reuters) – Moderna Inc. confirmed on Thursday that it will supply 40 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine to the South Korean government, with deliveries starting in May.

The vaccine, authorized for emergency use in the United States and Canada, is not currently approved in South Korea.

The company said it would work with regulators to get approval before the vaccine is distributed.

Report by Dania Nadeem in Bengaluru; Edited by Sriraj Kalluvila

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