S Korea's Green Cross to provide new flu vaccines to gov't
SEOUL. September 21. KAZINFORM South Korea's Green Cross Corp. said Monday that it signed a contract worth 42.6 billion won, or 35.3 million U.S. dollars with the South Korean government on providing 5.86 million doses of its A /H1N1 vaccine, Kazinform refers to Xinhua.
According to Green Cross, the company will provide the government with flu vaccines by the end of November.
The South Korean government announced that it plans to have some 13.4 million people, or 27 percent of the nation's population, inoculated by next February.
Meanwhile, another local drug maker, Boryung Pharmaceutical Co., said last Thursday that it filed for selling a Chinese-made vaccine for the flu in South Korea within this year.
Settling a deal with China's Sinovac Biotech Ltd. earlier this month, the company will import as many as 10 million doses of the vaccine, enough to inoculate some 5 million people, Kazinform cites Xinhua. See www.chinaview.cn for full version.