Kim tries to book a coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccination via online in Seoul, South Korea on July 15, 2021. — Reuters
SEOUL: South Korean graduate student Kim Hyun-jin sits with her thumbs flailing away at the screen of her phone, hoping to land a click on an online map that will get her the leftover coronavirus vaccine that someone in her Seoul neighbourhood missed.
But after 10 days of “mad clicking”, Kim, 32, has come away with nothing as vaccines are scarce amid a surge in new Covid-19 cases that started last week and is setting daily records.
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