China's first batch of vaccines for Africa to arrive on Wednesday: FM
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The vaccines provided by the Chinese government to Equatorial Guinea were delivered today and expected to arrive in its capital Malabo on Wednesday morning local time, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday at a press briefing.

This is the first batch of vaccine provided by the Chinese government to African countries, which shows China’s practical actions to implement China’s declaration of developing vaccines as a global public product and the pledge that President Xi Jinping made at the extraordinary China-Africa summit on solidarity against COVID-19 last June that African countries would be among the first to benefit once the development and deployment of COVID-19 vaccine is completed in China, said Wang.

Wang stressed that China and Equatorial Guinea are sincere and reliable partners and brothers. For more than half a century, the two countries have adhered to the good traditions of solidarity and mutual assistance. Facing the COVID-19 pandemic, China donated vaccines to Equatorial Guinea as quickly as possible, once again demonstrating the profound friendship between the two countries.

China will continue to carry out vaccine cooperation in different ways with African countries, including Equatorial Guinea, said Wang, adding “we will provide support and help in terms of African countries’ needs to jointly fight the epidemic, promote post-epidemic development and benefit the people of China and Africa.”

(Compiled by Liu Kechen and Zhu Yingqi)