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Covid-19: North Korea declined 2 million doses of Kexing vaccine, “please help countries severely affected”-BBC News

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At the Politburo meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Kim Jong-un criticized some cadres for neglecting the epidemic prevention work, causing “major mistakes.”

North Korea has declined to send about 3 million doses of China’s Coxing vaccine, and said that these vaccines should be sent to countries with more severe outbreaks.

These COVID-19 vaccines have been provided by the COVID-19 Global Access Facility (Covax) in recent weeks. Funds for the program are mainly funded by Western governments to help low-income countries obtain vaccines.

A spokesperson for the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), which represents Covax and helps deliver vaccines, said the North Korean Ministry of Public Health rejected the vaccines. North Korea believes that the global supply of new crown vaccines is limited, while cases in other places continue to surge. The country requires that these vaccines be transferred to countries severely affected by the epidemic.

The World Health Organization (WHO) stated that as of August 19, North Korea had no new cases. This statement was questioned by South Korea and the United States. The WHO said in its weekly report that about 37,291 North Koreans, including medical staff and influenza-like illnesses, were tested for the new crown virus and the results were all negative.

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