The White House is finalizing the shipment of 80 million doses of vaccine abroad
American Moderna Vaccine.
AFP
A senior US official said that the White House will finalize the procedures for allocating 80 million doses of "Covid-19" vaccines made in the United States, which Washington had pledged to send abroad in the coming days, with shipments leaving as soon as countries are ready to receive them.
And the coordinator of efforts to tackle the Corona virus in the White House, Jeff Zents, said that the United States has already begun to ship the doses, adding that some of them were supposed to go to Canada, and others go on to their destination to Brazil, in the coming weeks.
On Thursday, Canada said it expected to receive about one million doses of Moderna vaccine from the United States.
Later, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken wrote on Twitter that Washington had delivered one million doses to Canada.
This month, the Biden administration announced plans to allocate 25 million doses, and said it would allocate another 55 million doses by the end of June.
The United States intensified shipments of vaccines abroad, due to its rapid progress in the campaign to vaccinate its population.
The White House announced last week that it would buy 500 million doses from Pfizer to donate to poor countries in 2021 and 2022.
More than 175 million Americans have received at least one dose of the "Covid-19" vaccine so far, nearly 65% of adults in the United States have been vaccinated with a single dose.
Zents said infections and deaths in the United States have fallen by more than 90% since late January, the lowest level since the beginning of the epidemic.
But he expressed concern about the low vaccination rates in some American communities, especially with the spread of a new dangerous strain, which was first detected in India, and is known as the delta variant in the United States.
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