White House: More than 110 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine shipped to more than 60 countries | Voice of America

The White House announced on Tuesday that the United States has shipped more than 110 million doses of U.S.-made COVID-19 vaccines to more than 60 countries.

In a statement, the White House said most of the vaccines were shipped through the COVAX cooperative run by the World Health Organization, but also through regional partnerships, such as the African Union and the Caribbean Community ( CARICOM).

The White House said the donations reflect President Joe Biden’s fulfillment of President Joe Biden’s pledge to donate at least 80 million doses of the vaccine to other countries around the world, and that the doses are a down payment on the “hundreds of millions additional doses that the United States will provide in the coming weeks. “

The statement said the Biden administration will begin shipping half a billion doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to 100 of the world’s low-income countries.

Biden is expected to discuss the donation stage and other efforts later Tuesday.

The president’s announcement will come amid an increase in infections in the United States and around the world, fueled by the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus.