BEIJING: Chinese Covid-19 vaccine producers Sinopharm and Sinovac reached advance purchase agreements with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) to provide as many as 550 million doses of China-made vaccines for the world through the Covax Facility, a move that would largely help the world tackle the raging Delta variant and build immunity, Chinese experts said.

Sinopharm would provide 60 million doses to GAVI, which is purchasing them on behalf of Covax from July through October this year.

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