Plane with 300,000 doses of Chinese COVID-19 vaccine lands in Minsk


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Elderly next in line to get COVID-19 vaccine in Belarus MINSK, 18 May (BelTA) - An Il-76МД military transport aircraft with humanitarian aid from the People's Republic of China landed at the Machulishchi airfield. On board is the Chinese vaccine for coronavirus, BelTA has learned. The vaccine has been developed by the China National Biotec Group, a division of China's pharmaceutical giant Sinopharm. In February China gave Belarus 100,000 doses of this vaccine. This time it donated 300,000 doses for 150,000 people. The healthcare minister of Belarus and the Chinese ambassador have signed a certificate of the transfer of the...