More than 300-thousand people in South Korea have received COVID-19 vaccines since the nation launched a mass vaccination campaign last week.

According to the task force in charge of the vaccination campaign, as of 12 a.m. Sunday, a total of 314-thousand-656 people have been vaccinated, including some 17-thousand who got the shots on Saturday.

About 301-thousand people received AstraZeneca vaccines, while some five-thousand-270 people were administered the Pfizer vaccines.

The cumulative number of people suffering adverse effects after receiving jabs came to three-thousand-689, including about 800 cases reported on Saturday.

The majority of the cases involved common and mild symptoms such as headache or fever.

The number of people who have died after receiving the vaccines came to eight so far, with their correlation not proven.