Lt Gen Mohamed Hamdan “Hemeti” Dagolo, Sudan’s Deputy Chairman of the Sovereign Council, on Wednesday said the country will receive Covid-19 vaccines from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the next few days.
“Today, I made an important contact with Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Presidency Affairs of the Emirates, during which we discussed many issues and topics related to the relations of the two countries, as well as regional and international developments to enhance cooperation, we also discussed the developments of the Corona pandemic, and you might prefer,” he wrote on Facebook.
“Thank you for donating to the Sudanese people in the name of their country with an estimated quantity of Corona vaccines that will soon reach the country.
“We thank the Government and people of Emirates for their great stand with our country and hope that cooperation between our two countries will continue for the benefit of both peoples.”
Dagolo did not specify the type of vaccines would be provided or how many, however both the Chinese Sinopharm and the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines have so far been approved for use in the UAE.
Recall that last month, Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said Sudan would receive 8.4 million doses of a Covid vaccine.
Also the country’s health ministry said it expected their arrival before April.
Sudan, which has an estimated population of 39.5 million, recently set a new infection record in Khartoum State with 110 new Covid-19 cases and nine deaths.
The new figures bring the total number of infections in Sudan to more than 23,300, including 1,468 deaths.