Chinese Vaccine Deliveries to Africa Slow to a Trickle

Chinese pharmaceutical companies shipped just 1.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the past week, part of a wider slowdown in recent weeks. In all, China has delivered 52 million jabs to 37 countries across the continent to date but the distribution remains highly uneven, according to Bridge Consulting’s latest Vaccine Tracker Report.

75% of all Chinese vaccine distributions in Africa have gone to just six countries, predominantly in North Africa:

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