Sudan to Receive First Batch of Sinopharm Vaccines

A suspected COVID-19 patient has his temperature taken as he is admitted at the isolation ward of Ministry of Health Infectious Disease Unit in Juba, South Sudan, April 24, 2020. (AFP)

Sudan will receive its first shipment of 250,000 doses of the Chinese Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, state news agency SUNA said on Wednesday.

Sudan became the first country in the Middle East and North Africa region to receive vaccine doses through the COVAX facility this month when 828,000 doses of the shot produced by AstraZeneca arrived in the East African country.

Sudan has reported 31,147 infections, 23,858 recoveries and 2,003 deaths from the virus.