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China will donate 100 000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Congo Republic and forgive $13 million in public debt, its ambassador to the Central African country said on Thursday. Ambassador Ma Fulin announced the measures after a meeting with Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso. He did not say which Chinese-developed vaccine would be provided. The doses are enough to vaccinate 50 000 of Congo's 5.1 million people. Congo, which has recorded 8 060 infections and 122 coronavirus-related deaths, has been allocated 420 000 doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine for the first half of this year under the global Covax vaccine-sharing...
