The US will buy 500 million more doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine to share through the global Covax alliance for donation to 92 lower income countries and the African Union over the next year, reports say.
President Joe Biden was set to make the announcement on Thursday in a speech before the start of the Group of Seven summit.
Two hundred million doses enough to fully protect 100 million people would be shared this year, with the balance to be donated in the first half of 2022, sources said.
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National security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters on Wednesday that Mr Biden was committed to sharing vaccines because it was in the public health and strategic interests of the US.
US to buy 500 million Pfizer vaccines to share with lower income countries
The US has faced mounting pressure to outline its global vaccine sharing plan. By Press Association Wednesday 9 Jun 2021, 10:30 PM 1 hour ago 4,530 Views 8 Comments
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THE US WILL buy 500 million more doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine to share through the global Covax alliance for donation to 92 lower income countries and the African Union over the next year, reports say.
President Joe Biden was set to make the announcement tomorrow in a speech before the start of the Group of Seven (G7) summit.
Two hundred million doses enough to fully protect 100 million people would be shared this year, with the balance to be donated in the first half of 2022, sources said.
UK must give poorer countries jabs to stop millions dying and new variants, WHO says Mirror 4 hrs ago Patrick Daly & Talia Shadwell
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned richer countries including the UK must donate jabs to poorer nations - or face millions more global deaths and more future lockdowns.
The WHO, the International Monetary Fund, World Bank Group and the World Trade Organisation used a joint plea to call for wealthier countries to give more Covid vaccines to poor nations - or risk new variants bringing fresh outbreaks to Britain. The officials told the Telegraph and a range of international newspapers a dangerous gap is emerging that could create a two-track pandemic if the problem is not tackled now.
Boris Johnson is being assailed by a queue of experts warning against the unlocking - with Prof Adam Finn among those entreating him to recognise that the UK is still vulnerable .
June 1, 2021, 12:58 am
Thousands took-up the invitation for a vaccine at Twickenham Stadium on Monday as the UK races to vaccinate the population against the Indian variant (Dominic Lipinski/PA)
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Covid vaccines must be shared with poorer nations to prevent richer countries being hit by newly-imported deadly variants, world leaders have been told.
Global bodies – along with MPs and peers – warned of fresh lockdowns if people in developing nations do not get a huge increase in jabs.