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Squeezed out of the race for Western vaccines, developing countries turn to China
Lucien O. Chauvin, Anthony Faiola and Eva Dou, The Washington Post
Feb. 16, 2021
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LIMA, Peru - Tour operator Marco Arellano s business shuttling tourists to Machu Picchu and the Amazon jungle effectively ground to a halt during the coronavirus pandemic. Now, as this South American nation is caught in the throes of a brutal second wave, he and millions of other Peruvians are putting their faith in one country to turn the deadly tide.
Peru has joined developing nations from North Africa to the Andes in counting on China for help. For these customers, the vaccines developed in Chinese laboratories and now being distributed globally could hold the solution to a massive problem: how to inoculate their populations after bigger and richer nations have pushed them to the back of the line for the more reliable vaccines developed in the West.