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Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Four million doses of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines arrive Myanmar
Empty vials of the Sinopharm Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine are kept on a table at a vaccination centre in Hanoi on September 10, 2021. Nhac NGUYEN / AFP
Four million more doses of China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines arrived in Myanmar's Yangon on Sunday, according to a statement from the Chinese Embassy in Myanmar.
So far, China has supplied 12.6 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Myanmar, of which 3.9 million doses were donated by China, the statement said.
According to Myanmar's Ministry of Health on Sunday, over 3.23 million people have been fully vaccinated nationwide, while over 1.7 million people have received the first jab of COVID-19 vaccines as of Saturday.
