At a summit-level online meeting on measures against the new coronavirus, US President Joe Biden announced that he would provide 500 million new vaccines to developing countries and other countries.
The meeting was hosted by President Biden of the United States on the 22nd, in conjunction with the United Nations General Assembly in New York, and was attended by the leaders of each country and representatives of international organizations.
At the beginning, President Biden said, "In order to defeat the spread of infection in the United States, it is necessary to suppress the spread of the infection worldwide," and announced that it will provide 500 million new vaccines of Pfizer, a major pharmaceutical company, to developing countries.
That's more than 1.1 billion doses of vaccines provided by the United States.
It also means that vaccines will be distributed through the international vaccine distribution framework "COVAX Facility".
The White House said in a statement that it would support the WHO's goal of completing vaccination of at least 70% of the world's population by the next UN General Assembly a year later, President Biden said at a meeting. We also called on other developed countries to provide vaccines.
The gap in vaccination rates between developed and developing countries is widening over the new Corona vaccine, and WHO has criticized that vaccines already provided by developed countries are less than 15% of the original promise. I am.