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P.Resident Joe Biden will announce a “historic” US donation of half a billion Covid-19 vaccine doses to 92 poorer countries on Thursday, the White House said.
The United States is buying 500 million doses of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine, including 200 million due to be shipped worldwide by the end of this year. The rest will be shipped by June 2022, the White House said in a statement.
This “largest purchase and donation of vaccines by a single country” will “help accelerate the global fight against the pandemic,” the White House said.
Biden, who is attending a G7 summit in Cornwall this week, “will also call on global democracies to do their part to ensure the world’s supply of safe and effective vaccines.”
The United States has come under fire for sitting on huge supplies of unused vaccines, which the government said was necessary as a precaution in one’s own race to get Americans shot in the arms.
However, with domestic vaccination rates now hitting 64 percent of adults receiving at least one dose, Washington is moving fast to regain global leadership on the issue.
