CHINA TO OFFER 10M VIRUS VACCINE DOSES TO COVAX

Wed 03 February 2021:

China on Wednesday said it will offer 10 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the international consortium of vaccines led by World Health Organization (WHO).

“At the request of the WHO, China has decided to offer 10 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to WHO’s COVAX, to meet the urgent need of developing countries,” China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Wang Wenbin told a news conference in Beijing.

Last month, China’s Sinovac, Sinopharm, and CanSinoBio vaccine manufacturers had submitted applications to join the global COVAX initiative that aims to provide COVID-19 vaccines to poor and middle-income countries.

The announcement came amid a visit to China by 13 international experts, picked by the WHO, to probe origins of the coronavirus which was first reported in Wuhan city in the country’s Hubei province in December 2019.