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Algeria Becomes First African Country to Register Russia’s Sputnik V Vaccines While Indonesia Becomes the First Country to Deploy China’s CoronaVac

by Eric Olander

A growing number of developing countries are beginning to mobilize their vaccination campaigns using jabs mostly from China and Russia. In Southeast Asia, where Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is currently on a week-long four-nation tour, the vaccine issue is the top story. 

Yesterday in Myanmar and today in Indonesia, Wang made the distribution of Chinese-made vaccines a key message point — just as it was last week during his five-country African tour.

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