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.
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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