BEIJING: Amid the COVID-19 epidemic running riot around the planet, China has provided over 900 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines for more than 100 countries, particularly developing countries, and will endeavor to provide two billion more for the world this year.
China has always upheld the idea of building a community with a shared future for mankind, kept its solemn promise to make COVID-19 vaccines a global public good, winning wide praise from the international community.
The Federal Commission for Protection against Sanitary Risks of Mexico authorized the emergency use of COVID-19 vaccines produced by China’s Beijing Institute of Biological Products Co., Ltd. (the Sinopharm vaccines) in Mexico in an announcement issued in August, an article by People’s Daily said.
According to analysis and research undertaken by relevant government departments in Mexico, the Sinopharm vaccines meet the country’s standards for quality, safety, effectiveness and other aspects of COVID-19 vaccine, said the announcement. mOn August 23, a new shipment of 500,000 China-donated vaccine doses arrived in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. Noting that vaccination is an important strategy of the Cambodian government for combating the virus, Tea Banh, Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister of Cambodia, believes that China’s selfless assistance has effectively safeguarded the lives and health of the Cambodian people.
On the same day, a handover ceremony was held to mark the donation of 100,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Cambodian Red Cross from the Red Cross Society of China.
The second batch of COVID-19 vaccines donated by the Chinese military to the Lao People’s Army arrived in Vientiane, capital of Laos, on August 23.
Various anti-epidemic materials donated by the Chinese military, such as COVID-19 vaccines, medical masks, and virus testing reagents, as well as military medical experts from the Chinese army, have played an important role in preventing and controlling the spread of the epidemic in Laos, said Vongkham Phommakone, Deputy Minister of National Defense of Laos, at the handover ceremony held on the arrival of the vaccines.
On August 23, Ethiopia received the third batch of COVID-19 vaccines donated by the Chinese government at the Addis Ababa Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, the capital of the country.
– The Daily Mail-People’s Daily News exchange item
