Beijing: On Nov 29, President Xi Jinping announced that China would offer another 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to African countries and would motivate Chinese companies to finance up to $10 billion in Africa over the next three years. A sum of 200 million doses had already been supplied to the continent by China. The vow of additional vaccine doss was made as a new variant of the coronavirus, known as Omicron, which was first identified in southern Africa was intensified.
