White House announces destinations of first Covid-19 vaccines headed overseas in the coming weeks as the admin. looks to speed up efforts to assist countries struggling with a shortage of vaccines.
Of those doses, 19 million will be shared through the international aid organization COVAX, which will allocate 6 million doses to countries in South and Central America and the Caribbean, including Brazil and Haiti, which have been hit particularly hard. Another 7 million will go to Asian nations, including India, and 5 million will be sent to the African Union to allocate.
"To be clear, our approach is to ensure vaccines are delivered in a way that is equitable and follows the latest science of public health data across the coming weeks," White House Covid-19 coordinator Jeffrey Zients said."The administration will move as expeditiously as possible and work through regulatory requirements and logistical details to ensure safe and secure delivery of doses. It is certainly a complex operational challenge.
"Our overarching aim is to get as many safe and effective vaccines to as many people as fast as possible. It's as simple as that," said national security adviser Jake Sullivan."We want to save lives and thwart variants that place all of us at risk. But perhaps most important, this is just the right thing to do."
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