{"id":936,"date":"2020-12-03T21:16:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T21:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=131849"},"modified":"2020-12-03T21:16:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T21:16:25","slug":"northern-marianas-gets-vaccine-freezers-for-covid-19-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/03\/northern-marianas-gets-vaccine-freezers-for-covid-19-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Marianas gets vaccine freezers for covid-19 treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\">\n<p><em>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/international\/pacific-news\/\">RNZ Pacific<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Northern Marianas is ready for its allocation of covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer after acquiring 10 ultra-cold freezers from South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition of the freezers came as the CNMI waits for the Pfizer vaccines to get Emergency Use Authorisation approval from the US Food and Drug Administration.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the vaccines had not arrived as initially planned, the CNMI had been working on preparing and securely setting up equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The plan is to have two ultra freezers on Rota and two on Tinian, while the remaining six freezers would be located on Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Northern Marianas had already received 10 vials of Bamlanivimab, a treatment for mild-to-moderate covid-19, and would receive another 10 vials soon.<\/p>\n<p>Bamlanivimab is an intravenous drug which is applicable for patients who are 12 years and older and weighing at least 40 kilogrammes and who are at high risk .<\/p>\n<p>The drug will only be administered to those who are covid-19 patients who are at risk of becoming worse.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 1310 doses of the drug had been allocated for US territories and freely associated states.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article is republished by the Pacific Media Centre under a partnership agreement with RNZ.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/03\/northern-marianas-gets-vaccine-freezers-for-covid-19-treatment\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By RNZ Pacific The Northern Marianas is ready for its allocation of covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer after acquiring 10 ultra-cold freezers from South Korea. The acquisition of the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338,304,5,365,387,402,4,12,403,368,312,404],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}