{"id":7767,"date":"2021-04-07T21:00:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T21:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=7767"},"modified":"2021-04-09T06:32:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T06:32:29","slug":"somalia-pens-deal-with-chinas-sinopharm-for-200000-covid-19-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2021\/04\/07\/somalia-pens-deal-with-chinas-sinopharm-for-200000-covid-19-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia signs deal with China\u2019s Sinopharm for 200,000 COVID-19 vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>BEIJING &#8212;<\/strong> Somalia has signed a deal with Sinopharm, the Chinese company that produces the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine, for the delivery of 200,000 doses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Horn of Africa nation\u2019s ambassador in Beijing, Awale Kullane, signed the agreement on behalf of his country in a ceremony witnessed by deputy head of mission, Said Mire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The vaccines, once in Somalia, will boost the country\u2019s mass vaccination drive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The country rolled out its mass inoculations on March 16, having received 300,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from the international COVAX vaccine initiative. Priority is given to groups considered to be at high risk, including healthcare workers, essential service providers and the elderly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Wednesday, Somalia had reported a total of 11,978 confirmed COVID-19 cases with 576 deaths, according to the latest figures from its health ministry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The acquisition of the Chinese-manufactured vaccines comes amid calls by international leaders and the World Health Organization for countries to share vaccines in order to ensure joint efforts against the pandemic globally.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: CGTN\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/africa.cgtn.com\/2021\/04\/07\/somalia-pens-deal-with-chinas-sinopharm-for-200000-covid-19-vaccines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">View original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING &#8212; Somalia has signed a deal with Sinopharm, the Chinese company that produces the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine, for the delivery of 200,000 doses. The Horn of Africa nation\u2019s ambassador in Beijing, Awale Kullane, signed the agreement on behalf of his country in a ceremony witnessed by deputy head of mission, Said Mire. The vaccines, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-health-cluster","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7774,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767\/revisions\/7774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}