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Xi pledges to donate 600 million doses of the vaccine directly, with an additional 400 million doses from other sources. President Xi Jinping said China will deliver one billion additional doses of COVID-19 vaccines to African countries and encourage Chinese companies to invest as much as $ 10 billion in Africa over the next three years. The pledge of additional vaccine doses on top of the nearly 200 million that China has already provided to the mainland comes as concerns escalate over the spread of a new variant of the coronavirus, known as Omicron, which was first identified in southern...
