Vanuatu to test drone drug deliveries

posted by Francis Churchill

5 November 2018

The island nation of Vanuatu is to start using drones to deliver vaccines to children in rural areas.

The government has signed contracts with two companies, Swoop Aero and Wingcopter, to deliver medicines to some of its remote islands, including the islands Epi, Shepherd, Erromango and Pentecost.

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