COVID-19
UNICEF receives exemption to send ventilators, vaccine equipment to North Korea
Agency plans to ship items via Nampho-Dalian route, after it briefly opened for aid deliveries in fall
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has received international sanctions exemptions to ship COVID-19 relief items to North Korea, a letter from the U.N. Security Council 1718 sanctions committee showed on Wednesday.
The items covered under sanctions exemptions are worth around $1.48 million and include various types of ventilators, masks as well as COVID-19 vaccine cold chain equipment, according to the U.N. — even though North Korea is one of only two countries that has not yet begun administering vaccines.
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