South Korea will conduct a second pan-government exercise to transport COVID-19 vaccines on Friday with the first vaccinations set to start next week. 

An official on the vaccination task force said on Thursday in a press briefing that the planned exercise will involve training to transport the vaccines to islands like Jeju and Ulleung. 

The official said that to prepare for bad weather, military transport aircraft will be used instead of vessels. 

The official added that in the training, vaccines produced by a local company will be transported to a logistics facility in Gyeonggi Province and then transported to 25 community health centers. 

The government held a similar training earlier this month to rehearse the delivery process from the arrival of vaccines at the airport to the delivery to inoculation centers in major cities nationwide.

South Korea will begin its inoculations next Friday with AstraZeneca vaccines which will be manufactured locally by SK Bioscience.