Nicaragua receives Sinopharm doses

Just days after breaking diplomatic ties with Taiwan, Nicaragua has received 200,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine. The Nicaraguan people appreciate „this gesture of solidarity, cooperation, friendship, and brotherhood,“ government adviser and presidential son Laureano Ortega Murillo wrote on Twitter. A photo released for the occasion showed an Air China plane on a runway with representatives from both sides. The People’s Republic has pledged a total of one million doses of China’s Sinopharm vaccine to the Central American nation. Managua had severed diplomatic ties with Taipei in favor of Beijing last week (China.Table reported).