UAE first state outside China to produce Sinopharm vaccine
Beijing also signs a 25-year deal with Iran outlining economic, political and trade relations
28 March 2021 - 23:28
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will become the first country to produce China’s Sinopharm vaccine abroad in a deal that deepens Beijing’s influence in the Arab Gulf, long a bastion of US power.
Gulf Pharmaceutical Industries said on Sunday it signed a contract to start manufacturing the vaccine from April, making UAE the first Gulf state to set up a coronavirus vaccine production facility and boosting its efforts to become a supply hub to the Middle East and beyond...
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