The presidential approval published in the Turkish Official Gazette has brought into force the Intergovernmental Agreement between Turkey and Turkmenistan on grants in the field of health care, signed in September 2021 in Ankara. The agreement specifies delivery by Turkey to Turkmenistan of 150,000 doses of inactive Covid-19 vaccine and 19,800 boxes of Favipiravir tablets […]
Informal CIS Summit in St. Petersburg
Elvira Kadyrova On 28 December 2021, an informal summit of the CIS Heads of State took place in St. Petersburg. The traditional end-of-year gathering was attended by: First President of Kazakhstan – Elbasy Nursultan Nazarbayev President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of Armenia President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus President Sadyr Zhaparov of […]
Central Asian countries join the initiative on vaccine cooperation under the Belt and Road partnership
Elvira Kadyrova The Central Asian countries Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan and 24 other countries of the Middle East and Asia-Pacific region have agreed to develop cooperation and partnership in the field of COVID-19 vaccines within the framework of the flagship Chinese initiative of Belt and Road. The official launch of the initiative took […]
CAREC Institute: How to increase COVID-19 vaccination trust in Central and West Asia
Elvira Kadyrova Since the WHO’s declaring Covid-19 pandemic, more than 1.6 billion doses of vaccine has been administered worldwide. The data give hope that the collective immunity developed as a result of immunization will stop the terrible virus. However, according to a CAREC Institute research survey conducted in Georgia, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Pakistan, […]
Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccines delivered to Turkmenistan
On March 6, 2021, a batch of COVID-19 vaccines provided by the Government of China to Turkmenistan was delivered to the city of Turkmenabat. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to Turkmenistan Qian Naicheng and representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry, as well […]
China on the threshold of mass-production of home-development Covid-19 vaccine
The National Intellectual Property Administration of China have been issued the first invention patent to a domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine, reported CTGN. The vaccine, named Ad5-nCoV, is developed by Chinese biopharmaceutical company CanSino Biologics Inc., and by a research team of the Academy of Military Sciences led by Chinese military infectious disease expert Chen Wei. […]
Russian Covid-19 vaccine to be produced in several countries
Elvira Kadyrova Russian Covid-19 Vaccine “Sputnik V” Mass production of the Russian vaccine against coronavirus infection can be launched in a number of countries – in India, South Korea and Brazil. In addition, the opportunities of producing the vaccine in Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Cuba is being explored, says the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), […]