China says it is ready to promote fair global vaccine distribution. Many countries have already received shipments of Chinese vaccines or signed deals to get them. Mexico signed an agreement to buy 35 million doses of a vaccine from China's CanSino Biologics. In Turkey, h...
While rich countries have purchased enough coronavirus vaccine doses to inoculate their populations three times over by the end of next year.
According to the report, China has provided vaccine aid to 53 developing countries and exporting vaccines to 22 countries. Besides, 10 million doses of China’s home-grown COVID-19 vaccines have given to the World Health Organization’s Covax Facility. What China thinks about the most is to ...
The obvious gap between immunity in rich and poorer countries has drawn the attention of many experts. Many have warned that the longer the unequal vaccine distribution exists, the wider COVID-19 spreads, and new variants are more likely to emerge. Extremely unequal vaccine ...
This pressure is due not only to new COVID-19 patients requiring hospitalization, but also to many health workers getting sick. A woman takes photos on a street decorated with festive lights for Christmas in Madrid, capital of Spain, Dec. 2, 2021. (Xinhua/Meng Dingbo) ...
Beijing has already promised its vaccine will be supplied to developing countries in priority as a public good after research and development is complete and the vaccine is available. Beijing also joined Covax, a vaccine alliance backed by the World Health Organization, which seeks to grant equal ...
BEIJING, May 17 (Xinhua) -- China understands and supports the appeal of developing countries to exempt the intellectual property rights (IPR) of COVID-19 vaccines, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday. Spokesperson Zhao Lijian made the remarks at a daily press briefing when asked to...
As of mid-December, 61.4% of Americans were fully vaccinated against COVID-19 — a rate that disease experts say is inadequate to eradicate the virus. But it’s far better than the shockingly low numbers of some developing countries, where vaccination ra
Vaccine hesitant respondents are also highly resistant to required proof of vaccination; 31.7%, 20%, 15%, and 14.8% approve requiring it for access to international travel, indoor activities, employment, and public schools, respectively. For ongoing COVID-19 vaccination campaigns to succeed in ...
Bulgaria has suspended the use of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine after the death of a recipient on Friday. Health authorities say an investigation is underway but so far there's been no indication that the death is linked to the vaccine. Three health workers in Norway have...