Zimbabwe Receives First Vaccines From Sinopharm in China

Airport employees unseal a shipment of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine at Harare International Airport on Feb. 15.

Photographer: Tafadzwa Ufumeli/Getty Images 

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Harare, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Zimbabwe has received its first COVID-19 vaccines with the arrival early Monday of an Air Zimbabwe jet carrying 200,000 Sinopharm doses from China.

It is one of China’s first shipments of vaccines to Africa, after deliveries to Egypt and Equatorial Guinea.