SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- South Korea will send hand sanitizers worth one billion won (867,000 U.S. dollars) to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) by around Feb. 20 to help fight spread of A/H1N1 virus there, the government said Tuesday.
The government is in the final process of purchasing hand sanitizers designed to prevent the spread of the flu, and the sanitizers will be delivered via road, Seoul's Unification Ministry said.
The move follows the first batch of flu-related aid to the DPRK, which consisted of antiviral drugs for about 500,000 people, sent by Seoul's current administration under President Lee Myung-bak.
In December last year, Pyongyang acknowledged the A/H1N1 flu outbreak in the country and accepted Seoul's offer of medical aid, a rare scene in the inter-Korean relations that rapidly soured after conservative-leaning Lee took office and halted the free flow of aid to the DPRK.
