(Reuters)Ethiopia\u2019s Ministry of Health said it would receive 300,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses from China\u2019s National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The Sinopharm doses are the first shots Ethiopia has secured outside the global COVAX vaccine-sharing initiative, Health Minister Lia Tadesse told Reuters on Monday.<\/p>\n
Ethiopia is struggling to administer shots and tame infections that have spiked.<\/p>\n
In the past month, it has recorded a 26 percent increase in coronavirus infections and deaths rose by 18 percent health ministry data shows.<\/p>\n
Ethiopia has recorded 200,563 infections and 2,801 deaths since its first case was announced in March last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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