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North Korea launches new campaign to vaccinate 1M people with UNICEF support

UN organization says campaign targets children and pregnant women who missed life-saving vaccinations during pandemic

North Korea has launched a new campaign to vaccinate more than 800,000 children and 120,000 pregnant women with UNICEF support, according to the U.N. organization, even as Pyongyang rejects other forms of humanitarian aid.

“The vaccination campaign will reach children and pregnant women in all 210 counties who have missed out on life-saving vaccines since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020,” UNICEF said in a statement on Tuesday.

The vaccines include the pentavalent, measles-rubella, tetanus-diphtheria, BCG, hepatitis B and inactivated poliovirus vaccines, UNICEF stated.

The U.N. organization previously announcedthat it helped deliver 4 million vaccine doses to the DPRK’s