BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 7
By Amina Nazarli - Trend:
China will send 5 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine to Turkmenistan, Trend reports referring to Turkmenportal.
The negotiations were held in Beijing between the presidents of the two countries.
At the Central Asia-China summit last month, Chinese President Xi Jinping promised to provide 50 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to his Central Asian counterparts by 2022 as well as transfer vaccine production technology.
In response to the coronavirus pandemic, Turkmenistan received Russian vaccines Sputnik V and EpiVacCoron, Anglo-Swedish AstraZeneca, as well as Chinese BIOwak.
China sent 500,000 doses of СоrоnаVаc vaccine to Turkmenistan on May 2021.