The US will provide a 500m dose of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine
The U.S. will buy another 500m Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer to deliver to other countries, with Joe Biden announcing on Thursday a significant expansion of efforts to help increase the country’s inoculation rates.
The Biden administration agreed to buy a 200m dose this year and to buy 300m in the first half of next year to ship to other countries, according to a person familiar with the deal. earlier report Published by The Washington Post.
The agreement has increased the dose of 80m vaccines given by the Biden administration to other countries after the US criticized it for storing doses instead of helping those in need.
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A strange Asian struggle to integrate citizens
Asian countries that took the path of controlling Covid-19 last year have been delayed in their fight against the virus, as efforts to vaccinate their populations lag behind other parts of the world.
Implementation problems vary from country to country, but in most of Asia one factor is constant: lack of vaccines to administer. When vaccines are not developed or produced at home, many Asian countries have to wait for delivery from Europe or the US, leaving them at the back of the queue.
While Asia has become the world’s largest factory, becoming a major part of the global economy, the vaccine race has shown that it lags behind in the pharmaceutical industry.