March 29, 2021 Biz in 60

J&J agrees to supply 400M vaccine doses to African countries Johnson and Johnson has agreed to supply up to 220-million doses of its single-shot coronavirus vaccine to the African Union this year. The US drugmaker says the delivery of the jabs to the 55 AU members will begin in the third quarter of 2021. A further 180-million doses could then be delivered next year. Vietnam's economy grows 4.48% in the first quarter Vietnam's gross domestic product grew nearly 4-and- a-half percent in the first quarter of 2021 compared to the same period a year earlier. That's as exports rose 22-percent, boosted by a surge in shipments of smartphones and personal computers to the US. The Southeast Asian nation is one of the few economies that didn't contract last year during the pandemic. China's Xiaomi opens production facility in Turkey One of China's biggest technology companies, Xiaomi, has launched a production facility in Turkey with supply giant, Salcomp. The factory in Istanbul will have an annual production capacity of 5-million smartphones and will employ around 2-thousand people. At the opening ceremony, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey offers important opportunities for foreign investors due to its dynamic labour force and strategic location.

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