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US President, Joe Biden , stated on Thursday that for covid vaccines – 19 that you will donate to other countries.
Joe Biden formally announced the US purchase and donation of 500 millions of vaccines to the pharmaceutical company Pfizer to deliver them to low-income countries, in remarks to the accompanying press in Cornwall, in the south-west of the United Kingdom, where he will attend the G7 summit.
(1) “Our vaccine donations do not include pressures for favors or possible concessions,” said the president, adding that the US is doing it to save lives, “to end this, that is, period.”
The mandate io indicated that his Government has adopted this measure because is “its responsibility” and has “The humanitarian obligation” to save as many lives as possible.
He indicated that while the pandemic continues there is still the risk of new mutations and recalled its impact on the growth of the global economy, the increase in instability and the weakening of governments .
“ The United States wants to be the arsenal of vaccines in the fight against COVID – , as when it was the arsenal of democracy during World War II ”, he remarked.
Biden assured that this is the largest individual purchase and donation of vaccines covid – 54 never made by a country.
USA. will begin to send the doses in August, so that 200 millions of vaccines are already delivered to end of this year and the rest in the first half of 2022.
The vaccines will be distributed through the COVAX mechanism, promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Pfizer will produce the doses in several of its plants in the United States, such as Kalamazoo (Michigan), MacPherson (Kansas), Chesterfield (Missouri) and Andover (Massachusetts).
B iden offered these statements after meeting this Thursday in Carbis Bay, Cornwall .
Vaccines, climate change and the new Atlantic Charter , signed by the two responsible today, were some issues that they addressed at the meeting.
The UK is the first leg of Biden’s international tour – his first overseas trip since he was president – which will also take him to Brussels and Geneva.
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