Nigeria
has recently had to destroy more than 1.06 million doses of expired
AstraZeneca vaccines. Faisal Shuaib, head of Nigeria's National Primary
Health Care Development Agency, condemned that "We had developed
countries that procured these vaccines and hoarded them. At the point
they were about to expire, they offered them for donation." He also
announced recently that Nigeria would no longer accept such donations.
This
is not an isolated case. Reports showed that Senegal is likely to
destroy approximately 400,000 doses of expired COVID-19 vaccines by the
end of this year. Malawi burned nearly 20,000 doses of expired COVID-19
vaccines in May, and the Democratic Republic of Congo also returned in
April 1.3 million doses of vaccines for the same reason.
By June
2021, the total number of vaccines hoarded in the US had far exceeded
its domestic demand. According to statistics, the US and its partners
also hold about 240 million COVID-19 vaccine doses that are about to
expire. They would rather leave the surplus vaccines in warehouses than
provide them to countries that really need them.
These countries
will not think of selling or "donating" them to developing regions such
as Africa until the vaccines are about to expire. In this way, the US
and its partners "fulfill" the promises they made about vaccine
donation, squeezing out the very last value of the vaccines about to
expire.
Anonymous
4 comments:
How the Five-Eyes Anglo Saxon Whites eavesdrop on the world to maintain hegemony
The USA had half a million cases of infections while the UK had more than 300 thousand infections, all time records. God is doing something good for the rest of the world.
Africa is rising in awareness of how evil the Anglo Saxons are. Never too late!
Singapore jumps to Chinese' favorite country in 2021, as Canada falls to bottom: Global Times survey finds
Which country is Chinese people's favorite? A new survey shows Singapore ranks top while Japan and Canada, which used to be Chinese people's hot travel destinations, saw a sharp decline, with Canada at the bottom in the latest ranking.
The survey was conducted online by the Global Times Research Center with market survey firm DATA100, collecting 2,148 valid questionnaires covering 16 Chinese cities from December 10 to 15.
It shows that apart from China, 14 percent of the respondents said Singapore is their favorite country. Canada is their least favorite with only 0.4 percent of respondents saying they like the country.
As for which country that the Chinese public would like to visit the most, the survey also shows Singapore at the top (17.1 percent), followed by Maldives and France.
A comparison of data over the past four years shows that Singapore had not been in the top six of Chinese respondents' choice since 2018, before jumping to the top in 2021.
Zhou Fangyin, a professor at the Guangdong Research Institute for International Strategies, told the Global Times that it is indeed surprising to see Singapore at the top as both Chinese people's favorite country and favorite travel destination.
Noting that the improvement on favorability for Singapore formed a stark contrast with the decline of Western countries on the list, the expert believes that the reasons might include the decline of the negative news from Singapore in recent years.
Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has repeatedly stressed that the country does not take sides between China and the US, and he has an objective and calm attitude toward China-US relations.
On October 15, Chinese President Xi Jinping said during his phone conversation with Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong that China and Singapore should jointly work to address the new task of post-pandemic development, and that the current socio-economic development of both countries and the bilateral relations are standing at a new starting point in history.
Visitors from China come to Singapore as tourists and to invest.
Visitors from India come to Singapore as job seekers under CECA to cannibalize Singaporean PMETs' jobs !
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