He apologised after believing a foreign company would provide 30 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
A South Korean mayor who almost fell for a vaccine scam has publicly apologised for his actions.
Some 16.4% of its population has received their first vaccine dose, with plans to vaccinate 14 million people by the end of the month."It was my mistake that this case regarded as one of the simple cases of a failed vaccine import has escalated into a fake vaccine fraud case," said Mr Kwon, according to a Yonhap news report.
But the government found this vaccine proposal had "reliability issues", noting that Pfizer only supplied its vaccines to central governments and international health organisations.
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