White House Announces U.S. Has Donated 110 Million Covid-19 Vaccines to Foreign Countries

The White House announced that the United States has donated 110 cardinal Covid-19 vaccines to 60 overseas countries, 2 months aft the Biden medication announced its volition to stock vaccines globally. The White House missed its archetypal extremity of sharing 80 cardinal doses by the extremity of June.

Most of the doses were shared done COVAX, the satellite vaccine inaugural spearheaded by the World Health Organization (WHO). Indonesia, the Philippines, Colombia, South Africa, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Vietnam were among the nations to person the largest fig of vaccine doses. Regional partners, specified arsenic Mexico and Canada, received the rest.

“Our goals are to summation planetary COVID-19 vaccination coverage, hole for surges and prioritize healthcare workers and different susceptible populations based connected nationalist wellness information and acknowledged champion practice, and assistance our neighbors and different countries successful need,” the White House said successful a information sheet. “Importantly, the United States has not and volition not usage its vaccines to unafraid favors from different countries. Our purpose is to prevention lives.”

“These much than 110 cardinal doses – that are already redeeming lives astir the satellite – are conscionable the opening of the Administration’s efforts to supply vaccines to the world,” the information expanse continues. “Starting astatine the extremity of this month, the Administration volition statesman shipping a fractional a cardinal Pfizer doses that the United States has pledged to acquisition and donate to 100 low- income countries successful need.”

The Biden medication has a larger extremity to donate 500 cardinal doses to 92 lower-income countries, portion of an effort by leaders of the Group of 7 (G7 countries) to donate 1 cardinal COVID-19 vaccine doses to poorer countries implicit the adjacent year.