Algeria has received 200,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine from longstanding ally China, the official APS news agency said Thursday, boosting the North African nation’s fight against Covid-19.
China’s ambassador to Algiers, LI LIANHE, had said last week that Beijing would gift Algeria 200,000 vaccines.
China has been forging strong ties across Africa through its vaccine donations, including to Equatorial Guinea and Zimbabwe.
Algeria launched its vaccination campaign in January with a first shipment of 50,000 doses of Russia’s Sputnik V, and has since received 50,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
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