Vanuatu is the world’s first government to contract a commercial drone company to deliver vaccines, according to Unicef. — Reuters pic KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 19 — A one-month-old baby in Vanuatu has become the first person in the world to be immunised using vaccines delivered by a commercial drone, the …
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Posted December 19, 2018 22:06:51 Photo: Nurse Miriam Nampil vaccinates baby Joy Nowai to immunise her against tuberculosis and Hepatitis B. (Supplied: Unicef/Jason Chute) A one-month-old baby in Vanuatu has become the first child to be immunised using vaccines delivered by commercial drone to the inaccessible island where she lives …
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Wednesday, 19 December 2018, 10:45 amPress Release: UNICEF On a remote island of the South Pacific country of Vanuatu, one-month-old Joy Nowai became the world’s first child to be given a vaccine delivered commercially by drone. The vaccine delivery covered almost 40 kilometres of rugged mountainous terrain from Dillon’s Bay …
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