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7,000 new doses of H1N1vaccine now available in CNMI

17:19 pm on 11 January 2010

The Department of Public Health in the Commonweatlh of the Northern Marianas has received another shipment of H1N1 vaccines.

The cargo contained another 7,000 new doses.

The deputy secretary for Public Health, Pete Untalan, says the new doses will be made available to all community members on three islands.

The Commonwealth is down to get a total of 56,000 H1N1 vaccines

So far, it has already received 25,000 .