China Announces Providing COVID-19 Vaccine to Pakistan
Islamabad, January 22, 2021 (PPI-OT): During telephone conversation with Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi informed that China will provide five hundred thousand doses of Sinopharm vaccine to Pakistan by the end of this month. This gesture by Beijing reaffirms depth and breadth of the ‘All-Weather Strategic Cooperative Partnership’ between Pakistan and China.
State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi underscored that Beijing would also provide vaccines produced by CanSino and SinoVac to support Pakistan’s fight against the second wave of COVID-19. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi thanked State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi for China’s befitting gesture that once again demonstrated that it stood by Pakistani people in the hour of need.