Covid China Extends Its Vaccine Diplomacy
The United States
will "immediately" donate $ 2 billion
for the development and equitable distribution of covid-19 vaccines globally, and
will contribute another $ 2 billion in the coming months
, in an attempt to assume international leadership
against the disease.
pandemic.
US President Joe Biden will formally announce this commitment this Friday - which amounts to a total of 4,000 million until 2022 -
during a virtual G7 summit
, the first international meeting in which the new president participates since he came to power in January. .
"This pandemic is not going to end unless we end it globally," a senior US official, who requested anonymity, said Thursday during a telephone press conference to give details of the announcement.
The United States joined
the World Health Organization (WHO) COVAX platform
at the end of January
, created to promote equitable access to vaccines against covid-19, and has now decided to challenge the main economies of the world. world to drive
efforts to distribute them globally
.
To this end, the US Government will deliver "immediately", over the next month, an initial contribution of 2,000 million dollars to the
Alliance for GAVI Vaccines
, which participates in COVAX and seeks to increase access to the anticovid vaccine in
92 countries. with developing economies
, explained the aforementioned official.
The United States plans to donate an additional $ 2 billion to that initiative throughout 2021 and 2022, and will
disburse the first 500 million of that second tranche "once the donations that have already been promised (other countries) are delivered
and distributed. the first doses "to developing nations, the White House said.
In addition, during the summit this Friday, Biden will ask the main economies of the world, gathered in the G7, to follow his example and "contribute billions of dollars more in resources to support the global vaccination campaign against covid-19 "added the White House in a statement sent to Efe.
The GAVI alliance warned in November that it
needed to raise an additional $ 5 billion in 2021
to continue the COVAX program, after raising an initial $ 2 billion last year to fund access to 2 billion doses of vaccines. anticovid.
The White House is confident that its $ 2 billion donation and the promise of another $ 2 billion will motivate other countries to increase their contributions to the initiative, to meet and exceed GAVI's $ 5 billion target as soon as possible.
"We believe that it is likely that it will take at least 15,000 million
dollars to be able to really boost the supply of vaccines around the world and (improve) the distribution systems," said the aforementioned official.
The United States, the country most affected in the world by the pandemic in absolute terms, with more than
27.8 million infections and 492,000 deaths
, is also "considering donating" its surplus vaccine directly once it reaches the doses it considers enough to inoculate its entire population, said that source.
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