Bolivia steps up vaccination drive with Chinese COVID-19 vaccines


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LA PAZ, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Bolivia's President Luis Arce on Monday called on health authorities to step up the country's mass vaccination campaign with a new shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinopharm. "Here are all the vaccines we have pledged," said Arce, following the shipment's arrival at El Alto airport in the metropolitan area of La Paz. "Now the task is to vaccinate, the task is to finish our entire stock of vaccines to immunize as many Bolivians as possible so there is a smaller chance that people will contract the disease," said Arce. "We are...