Chinese President Xi Jimping is promising to donate one billion doses of vaccines to African countries as a way to help jointly overcome the Covid-19 pandemic and defend economic globalization. Speaking on Monday at the virtual session of the 2022 World Economic Forum (WEF), being held in the city of Davos, Switzerland, he reaffirmed the commitment of the...
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Poor countries say no to 100 million doses "due to expiration date"
The World Health Organization (WHO), revealed this Thursday that poor countries refused last month to receive about 100 million doses of the covid-19 vaccine because the expiration date was too short. In fact, the WHO has already accused rich countries on several occasions of withdrawing from the batch...
Mozambique receives 720,000 doses of covid-19 vaccine
Mozambique received on Tuesday 720 thousand doses of the Covishield vaccine against the new coronavirus. These are doses donated under the Covax mechanism promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO). According to the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef), the new batch received this Tuesday is part of a total of 17.8 doses of Covishield vaccine.
"Mozambique has no problems with vaccine availability," - Filipe Nyusi
The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, said on Monday that at least 5.4 million people have completed the two doses of the covid-19 vaccine in Mozambique, while another 7.8 million have received at least one dose. At this moment, citizens aged 18 and older are in the vaccination process, which...