NK Pro (file) | Workers at a soap factory in Sinuiju, Sept. 5, 2018
COVAX has offered to provide around 3 million doses of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine to North Korea, World Health Organization (WHO) representative to the DPRK Edwin Salvador told NK News on Thursday.
North Korea is also slated to receive 1.7 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines, but the delivery had been delayed for months due to the country’s lack of “technical preparedness” and a “global supply shortage,” according to the global vaccine alliance Gavi.
“A new funding opportunity to all AMC [Advance Market Commitment] eligible COVAX participants to support vaccine delivery called COVID-19 vaccine delivery support (CDS
COVAX has offered to provide around 3 million doses of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine to North Korea, World Health Organization (WHO) representative to the DPRK Edwin Salvador told NK News on Thursday.
North Korea is also slated to receive 1.7 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines, but the delivery had been delayed for months due to the country’s lack of “technical preparedness” and a “global supply shortage,” according to the global vaccine alliance Gavi.
Jeongmin Kim is the Lead Correspondent at NK News, based in Seoul. Kim covers inter-Korean and DPRK-related foreign, defense and humanitarian affairs, and has covered the 2022 ROK Presidential election on the ground. Prior to joining NK News, she worked for the CSIS Korea Chair in Washington D.C. and Reuters news agency's Seoul bureau. Follow her on Twitter @jeongminnkim