China to give $1 billion to Latin America for COVID vaccine


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The Chinese government intends to provide a loan of $1 billion to countries in South America and Caribbean in order to help the region get sufficient Coronavirus vaccines, the Foreign Ministry of Mexico said in an official statement. The promise by the government of the Communist nation was made through its foreign minister Wang Yi while he addressed a virtual meeting with his counterparts from the same region. Apart from foreign ministers of China and Mexico, the meeting had representatives of Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, among other nations. "China's Foreign Minister said that the vaccine developed in...