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Apr 07, 2021

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The number of people receiving their first vaccine shots against COVID-19 on April 6 reached a million in Korea. Pictured here is a man on April 1 getting inoculated at a public health center in Seoul's Seongbuk-gu District. (Yonhap News)


By Park Hye Ri and Kim Minji 


The nation on April 6 gave the first shot of a vaccine against COVID-19 to its one millionth person 39 days after national inoculations began on Feb. 26.

Dr. Kim Ki-nam, the head of a government task force on national vaccination against the coronavirus, told a news briefing that the number of people getting their first shots exceeded one million, adding that around 27,000 people got their second.

As of midnight on April 7, 1,039,066 people got their first vaccine shots, or 1.99% of the country's population, and another 33,414 their second, an increase of 5,722.

Among those getting their first shots, 887,452 received the AstraZeneca vaccine and the remaining 151,614 the Pfizer vaccine.

hrhr@korea.kr

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