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US President Biden has announced that 80 million doses of corona vaccine will be sent overseas within the next six weeks. Ahead of the ROK-US summit, how much vaccine Korea can secure is emerging as the biggest issue.
Correspondent Kim Soo-hyung reports from Washington.
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coronavirus vaccine announced by US President Biden to provide overseas is 60 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine, which has not yet been approved in the United States, and 20 million doses including Pfizer, Modena, and Janssen vaccines currently being vaccinated.
We did not disclose how much to send to which country.
[Biden/US President: This means that over the next six weeks, the US will send 80 million vaccines abroad. The United States will become the world's vaccine arsenal.]
President Biden stressed that the United States would not use vaccines to benefit from other countries.
[Biden/President of the United States: New mutant viruses that may occur in other countries may put us at greater risk. To keep the United States safe, we must help the world fight Corona.] In an
interview with SBS, Tom Frieden, former director of the CDC Center for Disease Control and Prevention, who insisted on making Korea an Asian vaccine production hub, appeared on CNN. He stressed the need to seek to expand vaccine production worldwide.
[Tom Frieden/Former Director of the CDC USA: We need billions of more vaccines. That is why it is very important to promise cooperation not only with the private sector but also with the government to increase vaccine production not only in the US but also in the world.]
Four days before the Korea-US summit, how much vaccine Korea can secure is emerging as a top concern.