{"id":119407,"date":"2021-04-19T16:10:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T08:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119407"},"modified":"2021-04-19T16:10:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T08:10:24","slug":"covid-19-guinea-buys-300k-doses-of-chinese-jabs-gets-200k-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119407","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Guinea buys 300K doses of Chinese  jabs, gets 200K donation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Guinea-buys-300K-doses-of-Chinese-COVID-19-jabs-gets-200K-donation-1236418?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/228\/22831618.295.jpg\" alt=\"A number of African countries have opted for China's Sinopharm and Sinovac jabs\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>A number of African countries have opted for China&#8217;s Sinopharm and Sinovac jabs<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <br>CONAKRY, April 19 (NNN-AGENCIES)\u00a0&#8212; Guinea received a shipment of 300,000 Sinovac\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3454\">COVID-19<\/a>\u00a0vaccines purchased from China and is also set to receive a donation of 200,000 Sinopharm shots, Guinean Foreign Minister Ibrahima Khalil Kaba said.<br><br>Kaba gave no further details on the Sinopharm donation.<br><br>Guinea is reporting 93 new coronavirus infections on average each day, 59% of the peak in March. There have been 21,460 infections and 138 coronavirus-related deaths reported in the country since the pandemic began.<br><br>The West African country has administered at least 109,296 doses of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3454\">COVID-19<\/a>\u00a0vaccines so far, according to government data compiled by Reuters.<br><br>Assuming every person needs two doses, that\u2019s enough to have vaccinated about 0.4% of the country\u2019s population.<br><br>The World Health Organization will decide late this month or in May on emergency use listings for\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3454\">COVID-19<\/a>\u00a0vaccines from Sinopharm and Sinovac following an extended review, a WHO European region official said. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of African countries have opted for China&#8217;s Sinopharm and Sinovac jabs CONAKRY, April 19 (NNN-AGENCIES)\u00a0&#8212; Guinea received a shipment of 300,000 Sinovac\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0vaccines purchased from China and is also set to receive a donation of 200,000 Sinopharm shots, Guinean Foreign Minister Ibrahima Khalil Kaba said. Kaba gave no further details on the Sinopharm donation. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":119408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119407"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}