Original title: Not a joke!The U.S. official announced to donate the new crown vaccine to this country…80 bottles and the country has received 300,000 doses of Chinese vaccine
[Global Times-Global.com Reporter Zhao Juehui and Hu Yuwei]What will happen when the United States publicly announces that it will donate 80 bottles of COVID-19 vaccine to Trinidad and Tobago, a Caribbean country with a population of approximately 1.4 million? Overwhelming ridicule, criticism, and contrast. This is because less than a day after the United States announced the donation of 80 vials of vaccines, the 200,000 doses of Chinese vaccines purchased by Teto will arrive in the country’s capital, Port of Spain. China has previously donated 100,000 doses of new crown vaccines to Teto.
The U.S. Embassy in Trinidad and Tobago issued a statement on its official Twitter on the evening of the 13th local time, saying, “The U.S. government has donated 80 bottles of Pfizer’s new crown vaccine to the government of Trinidad and Tobago. The U.S. is committed to Help the Trinidad and Tobago government to carry out vaccination work.” According to previous reports in the US media, a bottle of Pfizer’s new crown vaccine contains 5 or 6 doses of vaccine. In other words, 80 bottles of vaccine are only equivalent to more than 400 doses of vaccine. The vaccination process is only enough to vaccinate more than 200 people. Perhaps the U.S. Embassy itself realized the ridiculousness of “80 bottles”, and also deliberately added at the end of the statement, “We believe that every dose of vaccine is important.”
This donation statement was quickly spread on Twitter and received a lot of criticism and ridicule comments. Netizens from various countries were surprised that the US embassy announced the number of “80 bottles” of donations.
@Snigdha100%vaxxed#GetYoVax: 80 bottles? How many people can this bring continuous protection? Because it seems to me nothing to show off.
@Got My Moderna Workin’: For a country with more than 1 million people, 80 doses (bottles) are an insult.
@funkdrugmokey: They (the US government) must open a box of vaccines, count 80 bottles (or 115 bottles) from it, and then put the other vaccines back into the cold storage. incredible.
@Mohammad: This statement has almost as many words as the number of vaccines to be donated.
@MaryAnn Johanson: This is a shameful and meaningless gesture. You (the United States) should keep it secret, not hype.
Some comments also questioned that the United States had previously announced the distribution of 80 million doses of the new crown vaccine to the world by the end of June, and US President Biden just announced that it would donate 500 million doses of vaccines. Are these vaccines just verbal, in reality? Is it only 80 bottles? According to a local media report in the Trinidad Daily Express, the country’s National Security Minister Hinders explained that the 80 vials of vaccines announced by the United States have nothing to do with “any large-scale donations that we anticipate that the United States is considering”. Vaccines are “just a small batch of gifts received by the Ministry of National Security.”
While the message was almost overwhelmingly criticizing the U.S. government, some Trinidad and Tobago netizens were also sharing another news: The first batch of 200,000 doses of China’s Sinopharm vaccine purchased by the country will be delivered on the 14th local time. Arrive in Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago.
On the 13th local time, Chinese Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago Fang Qiu announced the above news on his official Twitter and Facebook. “I am very pleased to announce this latest development. The 200,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccine purchased by the Trinidad and Tobago government are on their way to Port of Spain! I am very happy to be invited to welcome the second batch of Sinopharm vaccine at the airport tomorrow!” Ambassador Fang Qiu also revealed that it is expected that a batch of Chinese vaccines will arrive in Trinidad and Tobago next month.
Below this news, many Trinidad and Tobago netizens expressed their thanks.
@Dina Goon Lun: We welcome them (vaccine). thank you. This is big news.
@RicardoPaul: Well done, Mr. Ambassador.
@Barry Kanchan: We are very grateful. Please send in as many vaccines as possible.
According to the news published on the official website of the Chinese Embassy in Trinidad and Tobago, on May 19, 100,000 doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine aided by China to Trinidad and Tobago arrived in Port of Spain. Many local people referred to the Chinese vaccine as “timely rain”. According to the “Global Times” reporter, this batch of Sinopharm vaccines will be launched in Trinidad and Tobago nationwide on May 21. Many local government officials and parliamentarians have all been vaccinated against Sinopharm. The country’s Senator Laurel Resama shared the process of vaccination in China via Twitter, “It only takes 15 seconds! The whole process is very smooth and well organized.”
The comparison between 80 bottles in the United States and 300,000 doses in China has been seen by Trinidad and Tobago people. However, Shanter Moore, the US Chargé d’affaires in Trinidad and Tobago, still chose in an interview with local media recently. Sex ignores the facts, on the one hand it hype about the promise of the United States to donate vaccines, on the other hand it attacks China.
Ambassador Fang Qiu commented on the interview on Twitter, “This article is full of irony, and one cannot help asking, how many vaccines have they (the United States) delivered? In addition to verbal promises, condescending preaching, and Apart from the malicious label, there is nothing.”
“Actions speak louder than words.” Ambassador Fang Qiu wrote.
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