Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), received a nine-month extension from the United Nations for a previous, Jan. 2020 sanctions exemption to deliver an ambulance and tuberculosis-related medical aid items to the North.

The U.N. Security Council 1718 Sanctions Committee approved a longer time frame for MSF to deliver the aid because of “the challenges related to the shipment of goods as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic,” according to a letter signed and uploaded to the Committee’s website on Thursday.

The original exemption request, approved on Jan. 7, 2020, had