While the controversy over the effectiveness of Chinese vaccines raged back in China and online, Somalis seemed either blissfully unaware or simply unconcerned when a shipment of 200,000 Sinopharm jabs arrived at the airport in Mogadishu on Sunday. (@CHINESESOMALIA).
Elsewhere in Africa, Comoros President Azali Assoumani received the inaugural injection of a dose of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine on Saturday. The president’s injection was from a batch of vaccines that arrived in the Indian Ocean island state on March 15. (XINHUA)