The hermit nation has not reported a single cases of the deadly vrius so far. North Korea is also expected to receive nearly two million doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine.
According to the COVAX vaccine-sharing programme, the Asian state has been allocated 1,992,000 doses of the jab for the first half of this year.
But the country has now made attempts to steal COVID-19 vaccine technology by hacking Pfizer Inc, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported on Tuesday. They cited the National Intelligence Service.
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