U.S. to share up to 60 million vaccine doses amid pressure to aid desperate countries Tyler Pager, Annie Linskey, Emily Rauhala
The United States will share up to 60 million doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine with other countries, the White House said Monday, as the Biden administration faces growing pressure to help vaccinate the global population and cases spike around the world.
The move comes as India in particular faces an increasingly dire situation, with its health system showing signs of collapse adding to the sense of urgent global need. The AstraZeneca vaccine, which is not authorized for use in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration, will be shipped out once it clears federal safety reviews, officials said.
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Up to 9000 Australian citizens and residents will remain stranded in India for at least three weeks after the federal government shut down all flights into Australia while joining global relief efforts to help the coronavirus-ravaged country.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne announce the pausing of all direct flights from India for the next three weeks.
Rhett Wyman
“There will be more to follow,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison said, following an emergency meeting of the National Security Committee of Cabinet.
But to safeguard Australia and give the quarantine facilities in NSW and Howard Springs outside Darwin time to bolster their defences against the rising number of infected people arriving from the subcontinent, the government cancelled the two weekly direct flights to Sydney as well as the government-sponsored repatriation flights to the Northern Territory until at least May 15.
Published April 27. 2021 12:05AM
Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News
The Biden administration will ship its entire stock of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine overseas once the cure clears a federal safety review, the White House said Monday, as the U.S. remains far ahead of the rest of the world in immunizations.
The administration is expecting to ship roughly 60 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine in coming months that are being stockpiled in the U.S. while awaiting approval from the Food and Drug Administration, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters.
It was not immediately clear which countries will be picked for AstraZeneca allotments once the FDA gives the all-clear. Neighbors Canada and Mexico have asked for doses and are likely to be high on the U.S. priority list.