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A shipment of 3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine has landed in Bolivia Sunday. The batch of the Sinopharm drug is China's largest donation ever to the South American country and will be used particularly on children aged between 5 and 11 years old.
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Bolivia's government said on Tuesday it had signed a deal for a potential 15 million Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) COVID-19 vaccines but with a twist: another manufacture would make the shots and Bolivia would need the World Trade Organization to waive the drug's patent.
Bolivian authorities Monday announced that with the last purchase of COVID-19 Sinopharm vaccines, the country was fully supplied with immunizers and would no longer need to import any more doses of Sputnik V and AstraZeneca despite contracts already signed.
The WHO said a sample database from nations around the world has shown the presence of the B.1.617 variant. Meanwhile, Canada's largest province has suspended use of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Follow DW for the latest.
Message : Required fields LA PAZ/TORONTO, May 11 (Reuters) - Bolivia's government said on Tuesday it had signed a deal for a potential 15 million Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines but with a twist: another manufacture would make the shots and Bolivia would need the World Trade Organization to waive the drug's patent. The South American country, scrabbling for vaccines like many in the region, said it had applied to the WTO to green-light a vaccine waiver so Canadian company Biolyse Pharma Corp could make the doses. Bolivian trade official Benjamin Blanco told a news conference the move coul...