Additional AstraZeneca vaccines enough for over 200-thousand people will arrive in South Korea on Saturday. 

The state task force on COVID-19 vaccination said on Thursday that a flight carrying 432-thousand doses of AstraZeneca vaccines to be procured through the UN-backed global COVAX Facility initiative will land on Saturday afternoon. 

They were initially scheduled to arrive late last month but the schedule was pushed back by three weeks amid a global shortage. The shipment was later moved back up to this week. 

Administrative procedures needed for the delivery were finalized earlier than expected, the task force said. Still, around 255-thousand AstraZeneca doses that the COVAX Facility was supposed to send won't be as yet available, it said. 

Meanwhile, the task force said around 300-thousand doses of Pfizer vaccine also to be procured via the COVAX Facility will arrive in the nation at the end of June.