Zhang Jun, China's permanent representative to the United Nations, sent a letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres, officially notified him that China will donate 300,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to UN peacekeepers with priority given to the African mission area.
The first shipment of China-donated inactivated COVID-19 vaccine from Chinese company Sinopharm arrived in Baghdad, capital of Iraq, on March 2. It was delivered to the Iraqi Ministry of Health.
Sierra Leone has received a shipment of China-donated COVID-19 vaccines at an airport in Freetown, capital of the country, on Feb 25.
A shipment of COVID-19 vaccine donated by the Chinese government to Guyana arrived at the country’s capital of Georgetown on March 2.
A shipment of COVID-19 vaccines donated by the Chinese government arrived in Conakry, capital of Guinea, on March 3.
China-donated COVID-19 vaccines arrived at Podgorica, Montenegro on March 3.
Zhang Maoyu, vice-chairman of the China International Development Cooperation Agency, signed four agreements with a representative of the United Nations World Food Program on providing food aid to Guinea-Bissau, Cameroon, Sierra Leone and Uganda.
A charter flight carrying COVID-19 vaccines developed by Chinese company Sinopharm and donated by the Chinese government and People's Liberation Army arrived in Mongolia on Feb 22.