Leaders from around world express appreciation, confidence in safety and reliability
From front-line workers to heads of state, more people around the world are praising and welcoming Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccines. Chinese vaccines have been proved to be safe and reliable, said Laotian Minister of Health Bounkong Syhavong upon receiving Chinese-donated Sinopharm vaccines in Vientiane, the capital of Laos, on Monday.
At about the same time across the Pacific, Peruvian President Francisco Sagasti expressed his appreciation to China as he welcomed the arrival of the first 300,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccine from China. Likewise, Chilean President Sebastian Pinera thanked China on Jan 28, and Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen expressed his gratitude for donated vaccine on Sunday.
28 Jan 2021
A University of Hong Kong survey published Thursday revealed a nearly 20-percent drop in interest among Hong Kong residents in receiving any vaccine against the Chinese coronavirus between November and January, and that less than one-third of those living in the city would take a vaccine China developed.
The survey revealed rapidly growing distrust in the city of both Hong Kong officials and their masters in Beijing, a distrust that had initially led to protests in 2019 against a proposed law to allow extraditions into China and culminated in China illegally imposing its laws on the nominally autonomous city.
Under the policy known as “One Country, Two Systems,” the government of Hong Kong cannot legally declare independence from China, and the Chinese Communist Party cannot impose laws passed in Beijing onto Hong Kong, allowing the city to persist as a bastion of free speech and enterprise following the United Kingdom’s surrender of the territory to China in 199
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) Brazil on Wednesday reported more 1,340 deaths from COVID-19 in a day, the second highest daily count since Aug. 19, the Hea
Brazil registered more that 1,340 coronavirus deaths in the last 24 hours, marking the second highest single-day spike since August 19, 2020, the Health Ministry said.The highest single-day death toll was 1,524, registered on January 7, Xinhua .
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