United States to announce plan to distribute vaccines to countries in need

In this way, the demand of the administration of Democratic President Joe Biden will begin to be met, which had promised to allocate some 80 million doses to countries having problems acquiring the doses.

A part, it was known in advance, will be directed to Latin America, although it is not yet known where and how it will deliver them.

Two weeks ago, during a presentation shared by the White House, the American president had once again celebrated the successful progress of vaccination in his country and launched the powerful promise to vaccinate 70% of the adult population of the States -United with at least one dose. .country for July 4th.

“In two months… families across the country are celebrating July 4th. Our goal, by July 4, is for 70% of American adults to have at least one vaccine and for at least 160 million Americans to be fully immunized, ”he said. .

With that goal on the horizon, and with the result of some 145 million adults vaccinated, or roughly 56% of the country’s adult population, the President faces another challenge: to lead immunization around the world.

“If we have a surplus, we will share it with the rest of the world”, launched early last week from Washington and added more: “There will be more vaccines than any country has shared to date, five times more than any country, more than Russia and China, which have donated 15 million doses ”.