SEOUL – South Korean President Moon Jae-in has pledged to provide all available support to develop home-grown vaccines for Covid-19, even throwing in a 2.2 trillion won (S$2.6 billion) investment package to help local drugmakers.

“We will strive to take a leap forward to become one of the top five global vaccine producers by 2025,” he said this month, adding that vaccines will also become one of South Korea’s three national strategic technologies, alongside semiconductors and batteries.

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