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Second Shipment of Oral COVID-19 Medication Paxlovid Arrives in Korea

Written: 2022-02-01 13:30:58Updated: 2022-02-01 13:38:59

Second Shipment of Oral COVID-19 Medication Paxlovid Arrives in Korea

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The second shipment of Paxlovid, Pfizer's oral COVID-19 treatment, has arrived in Korea.

The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency(KDCA) said that eleven-thousand courses of the pills arrived through the Incheon International Airport at noon on Tuesday.

The shipment had been scheduled to arrive on Sunday but was delayed due to a snowstorm that hit the northeastern part of the U.S. 

Seoul has so far secured enough oral medication to treat one million COVID-19 patients from U.S. drug makers Merck and Pfizer. 

The KCDA said it will reveal further plans to purchase more oral treatment as soon as they are confirmed.

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