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China Extends Pandemic Relief to Another Multilateral Organization

by Eric Claude Olander
Liu Yuxi, China's ambassador to the African Union, and Vera Songwe, Executive Secretary of United Nations Economic Commission for Africa attend a handover ceremony for medical supplies donated to UNECA, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on March 24, 2021. Image via Xinhua.

China donated a batch of medical supplies (not vaccines though) to the United Nations Economic Commission in Africa in what now appears to be part of a larger effort to provide critical pandemic relief to United Nations organizations and other multilateral institutions.

Earlier this month, Beijing donated 300,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the UN for peacekeeping troops around the world. Also, China provided an unknown quantity of Sinopharm jabs to the staff at the Arab League Secretariat in Cairo.

Today’s China Vaccine Headlines in Africa:

  • SOUTH AFRICA: China’s Sinovac has committed to supplying South Africa with five million doses of its CoronaVac vaccine. The vaccine is currently awaiting approval for emergency use from the country’s pharmaceutical regulator, SAHPRA. (BUSINESS INSIDER)
  • SUDAN: Sudan will receive its first shipment of 250,000 doses of the Chinese Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, state news agency SUNA said on Wednesday. (REUTERS)
  • ZIMBABWE: Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday got his first shot of China’s Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine in the resort town of Victoria Falls. (XINHUA)
  • MAURITANIA: Health Minister Mohamed Nedhirou Ould Hamed received a donation from the Chinese government of 50,000 doses of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday. (XINHUA)
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