The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has received another sanctions exemption extension to send humanitarian aid to North Korea aimed at helping the country with COVID-19, according to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) 1718 Sanctions Committee website.

UNICEF has an additional 12 months to provide medical and respiratory equipment including oxygen concentrators, patient ventilators and a flow splitter for oxygen supply, worth some $760,000. The UNSC initially approved the aid in July 2020.

The decision follows an earlier extensiongranted to UNICEF on Aug. 5 to provide cold chain storage equipment to North Korea. The DPRK’s strict border controls