Plus, China will donate a series of technological equipment to the Health Ministry, including respirators, face coverings, tests, defibrillators, incubators, catheters, oxygen cannulas, sheets, swabs, gloves, oxygen masks and protective clothing for professionals.

The first 200,000 Sinopharm doses arrived in Nicaragua on December 12, one of the first initiatives after reestablishing bilateral diplomatic relations.

Days later, on December 24, China sent a new batch of 800,000 vaccine doses and one million syringes and, according to official data, Sinopharm is the eighth to arrive in Nicaragua along with other international immunogens such as Sputnik V and Sputnik Light.

Nicaragua´s health ministry warned a downward trend in positive cases since last week of September; as well as a decreased transmissibility and hospitalization rate of patients and an increase in recovered people.

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