Ethiopia received 300,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses from China’s state-backed China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) on Tuesday.
According to the country’s Health Minister, Lia Tadesse, the Sinopharm doses are the second shots Ethiopia has secured since receiving the global COVAX vaccine-sharing initiative.
Ethiopia is struggling to administer shots and tame infections that have spiked.
In the past month, the health ministry data shows a recorded 26% increase in coronavirus infections and deaths rise by 18%.
On Thursday last week, the Africa CDC said Ethiopia had reported the highest number of new cases on the continent.
With a population of over 110 million, the Horn of Africa nation has recorded 200,563 infections and 2,801 deaths since its first case was announced in March last year.
