The G7 urged to do the same

America donates half a billion doses of Pfizer vaccine to poor countries

The 500 million doses are for the 100 poorest countries in the world.

EPA

Yesterday, the United States announced that it would spend $3.5 billion to purchase 500 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine to prevent Covid-19, and donate them to some of the world's poorest countries, and urged other countries in the Group of Seven major industrialized countries to follow suit.

The announcement of the donation of doses, the largest amount ever given by a single country, came ahead of US President Joe Biden's meeting with group leaders in western England.

The 500 million doses are for the 100 poorest countries in the world.

A senior official in the Biden administration described the initiative as a "big step forward, which will give a great impetus to global efforts" aimed at "bringing hope to every corner of the world."

Poverty-eradication group Oxfam has called for more to be done to increase global production of vaccines.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged, before the start of the G7 summit, which his country is hosting, today, Friday, to vaccinate the world's adults against the emerging Corona virus by the end of next year, saying that it "would be the greatest single achievement in the history of medicine."

The world needs 11 billion doses to vaccinate all adults in the world, Johnson promised.

Of the 2 billion doses already distributed, the richest countries have received 85% of them so far.

About half of American adults have received at least one dose of the vaccine, and 60% of British adults have received at least one dose, while only 1% of doses of vaccines produced by the world reached sub-Saharan Africa, and that the proportion of those who got Out of a billion people in the world's poorest countries, the vaccination rate is 1 to 500.

The world needs 11 billion doses to vaccinate all adults.

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