GENEVA — The United States is preparing to send out 1.35 million dosages of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to Mexico on Tuesday early morning, according to a White House authorities, the most recent example of the Biden administration’s international pandemic reaction in the fight versus Covid-19.
It follows a pledge from Vice President Kamala Harris to supply surplus dosages to our Southern next-door neighbor when she remained in the nation recently.
The brand-new delivery, which will come to Toluca International Airport early Tuesday, follows the U.S. directed 2.72 million AstraZeneca vaccine dosages to Mexico in late March and early April, the authorities stated. Mexico has actually had almost 2.5 million coronavirus cases and over 230,000 deaths, according to an NBC News tally.
President Joe Biden has actually dedicated to dispersing 80 million dosages worldwide by the end of June. In addition to the $2 billion contributed to COVAX, the international vaccination effort, the White House revealed today the U.S. would acquire another 500 million Pfizer vaccines to send them to the African Union and 92 lower and middle-income nations.
At the G-7 top in the United Kingdom over the weekend, leaders promised an additional 500 million dosages for the world, totaling up to a promise of one billion dosages.
And at the NATO top on Monday, Biden acknowledged the more than 600,000 Americans have actually lost their lives to the coronavirus. He pleaded with anybody who has access to a vaccine to do so “as soon as possible,” keeping in mind that the U.S. has lots of supply.
Boosting international vaccination rates has actually been a style of his very first foreign journey as president, as beating the pandemic figures into a lot of discussions with world leaders.
The very first batch of excess shots from the U.S. went to South Korea, with dog crates consisting of about one million Johnson & Johnson dosages getting here in the nation previously this month.
