The announcement of the vaccine donation - the largest ever by a single country - came before Biden meets leaders of the other Group of Seven advanced economies in England
ST IVES, England - U.S. President Joe Biden plans to buy and donate 500 million doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine to more than 90 countries, while calling on the world's democracies to do their part to help end the deadly pandemic, the White House said.
U.S. drugmaker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech will provide 200 million doses in 2021 and 300 million doses in the first half of 2022, which the United States will then distribute to 92 lower-income countries and the African Union. GAVI and the WHO welcomed the initiative but anti-poverty campaign group Oxfam called for more to be done to increase the global production of vaccines.
The donation is meant to "supercharge the global fight against the pandemic," the White House said. They will be part of the total U.S. commitment of $4 billion to COVAX announced earlier this year, a White House official said.
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