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The COVID-19 pill developed by Pfizer will be available by prescription to patients beginning Friday.
The health ministry said a plane carrying the first shipment of 21,000 doses of the Paxlovid oral medication is scheduled to arrive at Incheon International Airport on Thursday around 2 p.m.
The drug will be transferred to a Yuhan Corporation warehouse in Cheongju and then sent to community treatment centers and pharmacies nationwide.
Authorities said coronavirus patients aged 65 and older with symptoms and immunocompromised people would be given priority to receive the antiviral pill.
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