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A bird's-eye view of SK bioscience's vaccine facility in Songdo, Incheon [SK BIOSCIENCE]

SK bioscience applies for emergency Covid-19 vaccine approval

SK bioscience has applied for emergency use approval for Novavax’s updated Covid-19 vaccine.

2023.10.20

SK bioscience CEO Ahn Jae-yong, right, and John Herrmann, chief legal officer of Novavax, sign a licensing deal for the manufacture of the U.S. company's Covid-19 vaccine. [SK BIOSCIENCE]

SK bioscience signs deal to make Novavax's new vaccine

SK bioscience signed a licensing deal with Novavax to be one of the manufacturers of the U.S. pharmaceutical company’s Covid-19 vaccine targeting Omicron variants.

2022.7.19

Korea deploys its fifth vaccine, Novavax

Korea will begin administering Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine next week to unvaccinated people over 18 and people at higher risk of severe illness and death.

2022.2.10

A researcher at the Korean Vaccine Research and Development Center for Public Vaccines in Cheongju, North Chungcheong, in December testing the effect of SK Bioscience Covid-19 vaccine. It is the first to be tested after finishing phase 3 clinical trial. [YONHAP]

Gov't keeps spigot open for Covid vaccines, treatments

SK Bioscience is the most likeliest to first introduce a Korean vaccine as it is the only company that has completed phase 3 clinical trials.

2022.1.13

This image provided by Pfizer shows the company's Covid-19 Paxlovid pills, which will be prescribed in Korea starting Friday. [NEWS1]

Pfizer's Covid pills going to patients on Friday

Covid-19 pills will start being prescribed Friday to patients with weak immune systems and people over 64.

2022.1.12

President Moon Jae-in meets Stanley Erck, CEO of U.S. vaccine producer Novavax, at the Blue House in Seoul on Tuesday. [YONHAP]

Moon meets Novavax CEO but details scarce

President Moon Jae-in met Novavax CEO Stanley Erck on Tuesday but revealed little about when its vaccines may be ready for Korea.

2021.4.27

People get AstraZeneca shots at a vaccination center in Gwangju, as the rollout of the temporarily-suspended AstraZeneca vaccines resumed Monday. [YONHAP]

Novavax vaccines to be secured by Q3

President Moon Jae-in announced his confidence surrounding Covid-19 vaccine supplies as the country plans to produce 20 million Novavax doses by the third quarter.

2021.4.12

Nurses train for Covid-19 shots at the Korean Nurses Association in central Seoul Tuesday. These nurses will be dispatched to hospitals and treatment centers for Covid-19 patients. The first inoculations in Korea kick off on Feb. 26. [YONHAP]

More vaccine contracts signed, shots start Feb. 26

Korea signed separate deals for vaccines from U.S. pharmaceutical companies Novavax and Pfizer to inoculate an additional 23 million people, Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun announced Tuesday.

2021.2.16