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UNICEF receives exemption to send North Korea equipment for ‘routine’ vaccines

Agency will have one year to deliver walk-in cold rooms used to store vaccines against childhood disease

The U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has received a sanctions exemption to ship vaccine storage equipment to North Korea, the U.N. website revealed on Friday, though the equipment is not designated for COVID-19 vaccines.

Under the exemption, UNICEF will have one year to ship three “walk-in cold rooms” and a “remote temperature monitoring device” worth a combined $102,117, according to a letter from the U.N. Security Council 1718 committee overseeing North Korea sanctions.

“The equipment is intended for safe storage of routine vaccines as part of our regular immunization program in the DPR Korea,” a UNICEF spokesperson told NK Newson