North Korea rejected millions of Covid-19 vaccine doses manufactures in China

11 Sep, 2021

North Korea was the first country in the world to impose lockdown because of increasing cases of coronavirus in its neighbouring county China. North Korea sealed the borders.

Pyongyang insists it has yet to see any cases of the virus ? a claim that analysts doubt ? but it has paid a huge economic price for the blockade, with the regime admitting in June it was tackling a ?food crisis?.

Regardless, the isolated country told UNICEF ? which distributes vaccines under the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access (Covax) programme for low-income countries ? that the Chinese-made vaccines could be given to others, the UN agency was quoted as saying by AFP.

North Korea?s public health ministry ?has communicated that the 2.97 million Sinovac doses being offered to DPR Korea by Covax may be relocated to severely affected countries in view of the limited global supply of Covid-19 vaccines and recurrent surge in some countries?, a UNICEF spokesperson told AFP. (Courtesy The Singapore Post)

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