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Ethiopia\u2014A cavernous new airport cargo terminal in Ethiopia\u2019s capital is the center of a vast supply network China is assembling to speed delivery of its coronavirus vaccines\u2014and deepen its influence across the developing world.<\/p>\n
At one end is a soccer-field-sized freezer to store vials from Chinese state-controlled drug companies. At the other is a control room with a wall of computer monitors where Chinese and Ethiopian technicians will track temperatures of every batch.<\/p>\n
This week, more than one million doses of China\u2019s new Covid-19 inoculations will move through here, according to Ethiopian Airlines officials. Thousands of doses have already passed through, they and Ugandan officials said. More deliveries are set to arrive via a partnership between Chinese technology giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Ethiopian Airlines, said officials at the state-owned airline.<\/p>\n
At stake is a potential soft-power prize: the goodwill of politicians and people across the developing world needing low-cost Covid vaccines, and the prestige of being seen as a nation with the capacity to act as a guardian of global public health.<\/p>\n
For months, China\u2019s government, state enterprises and private companies have laid the groundwork for a vaccination push from Africa to the Middle East and Latin America. They\u2019ve assembled a supply chain that would maintain temperature controls from the point of manufacturing through every step of distribution\u2014and further the \u201cHealth Silk Road,\u201d as Beijing has called it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Africa-Press-Ethiopia Ethiopia\u2014A cavernous new airport cargo terminal in Ethiopia\u2019s capital is the center of a vast supply network China is assembling to speed delivery of its coronavirus vaccines\u2014and deepen its influence across the developing world. At one end is a soccer-field-sized freezer to store vials from Chinese state-controlled drug companies. At the other is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[241],"class_list":["post-2996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press-ethiopia"],"yoast_head":"\n