By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea is banking on the arrival of nearly 14 million doses of coronavirus vaccine by June, officials said on Monday, to boost an immunisation drive that could lose momentum due to dwindling supplies as result of shipment delays. Nearly 3.4 million of the population of 52 million had received their first dose by Sunday in the campaign begun in February, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said. A shipment of 8.9 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine, including 1.67 million via the global COVAX sharing scheme, and 5 million doses of Pfizer s product will arrive by June, the agency s director Jeong Eun-kyeong said, without giving dates. The scale and speed of the shipment of vaccines are improving increasingly, Jeong told a briefing after an intra-agency meeting to combat the virus, hosted by President Moon Jae-in. Please take trust in the government s plan to bring in vaccines, and I request you to join the campaign instead of worr
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