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Tanzania receives half a million Sinopharm vaccines

Covid vaccine.

Covid-19 vaccines. PHOTO | AFP

By  DOROTHY NDALU

Tanzania received the second batch of Sinopharm vaccines from China on Monday.

The 500,000 doses were received at the Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam by Health Minister Dorothy Gwajima.

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