The U.S. plans to send 1.35M doses of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine to Mexico, as part of President Biden’s commitment to distribute 80M doses worldwide by the end of June.
An employee with the McKesson Corporation packs a box of the Johnson and Johnson COVID vaccine into a cooler for shipping from their facility in Shepherdsville, Ky., on March 1, 2021.GENEVA — The United States is planning to send 1.
The new shipment, which will arrive at Toluca International Airport early Tuesday, comes after the U.S. directed 2.72 million AstraZeneca vaccine doses to Mexico in late March and early April, the official said. Mexico has had nearly 2.5 million coronavirus cases and over 230,000 deaths, according to an NBC News tally.President Joe Biden has committed to distributing 80 million doses worldwide by the end of June.
At the G-7 summit in the United Kingdom over the weekend, leaders vowed an extra 500 million doses for the world, amounting to aAnd at the NATO summit on Monday, Biden acknowledged the more than 600,000 Americans have lost their lives to the coronavirus. He pleaded with anyone who hasBoosting global vaccination rates has been a theme of his first foreign trip as president, as beating the pandemic figures into most conversations with world leaders.arriving in the country earlier this month.
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