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Delivering on a pledge to supply COVID-19 vaccine doses to Southeast Asia is critical to the credibility of the Quad group of countries, which made the commitment in March, a senior White House official said on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Delivering on a pledge to supply COVID-19 vaccine doses to Southeast Asia is critical to the credibility of the Quad group of countries, which made the commitment in March, a senior White House official said on Wednesday. A plan reached by the grouping of Australia, India, Japan and the United States to supply a billion COVID-19 shots across Asia by the end of 2022 stalled after India, the world s largest vaccine producer, banned exports in April amid a massive COVID outbreak at home. Speaking ahead of virtual summits of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and partner countries next week, Edgard Kagan, senior director for East Asia and Oceania at the White House National Security Council, noted that India had agreed to export the first 8 million doses under the project in October. We expect to see that ramp up, he told an event hosted by Washington s Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank. We fully appreciate the importance of fo
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