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A health worker receives the first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine Thursday at the Myongji Hospital vaccination center. (Baek So-ah, staff photographer)

Vaccination for health workers at tertiary hospitals, general hospitals and clinics began Thursday, four days before the originally scheduled date of March 8. Myongji Hospital in Ilsan, Gyeonggi Province, set up a vaccination center at its auditorium and began vaccinating 200 people per day out of 1,000 health workers eligible for inoculation.

The first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is being administered Thursday at the Myongji Hospital vaccination center. (Baek So-ah, staff photographer)

A health worker receives the first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine Thursday at the Myongji Hospital vaccination center. (Baek So-ah, staff photographer)

By Baek So-ah, staff photographer

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