Injecting Hope

With the first batch of Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines rolling off production lines in Egypt on July 5, it became the first country on the African continent to do so in cooperation with China. The program was launched in December 2020. Local production commenced six months later and reached an output of 1 million doses within a relatively short period.

In May 2020, at the opening ceremony of the 73rd World Health Assembly, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that China would be making its vaccines available to the world, serving it as a global public good. “This will be China’s contribution to ensuring vaccine accessibility and affordability in developing