SEOUL: South Korea is drawing up a plan on how to live more normally with COVID-19, expecting 80 per cent of adults to be fully vaccinated by late October, health authorities said on Wednesday .
"We'll review measures that will allow us to live more normally, but any such switch will be implemented only when we achieve high vaccination rates and overall situations stabilise," Son Young-rae, a senior health ministry official, told a briefing. The government expects to implement the plan sometime after late October when 80 per cent of its adult population likely will have been vaccinated. As of Tuesday, South Korea had given at least one vaccine dose to 70.9 per cent of its adult population, while 42.6 per cent are fully vaccinated.South Korea in talks with mRNA COVID-19 vaccine makers to make up to 1 billion doses: Government official