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Biden to announce details of global distribution of 80 million vaccine doses
On Wednesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said, President Joe Biden will announce within days the details of a plan to export 80 million coronavirus vaccine doses to other countries “without any political strings attached.”
“In a few short days, in fact possibly as early as tomorrow, the president is going to announce in more detail the plan that he put together to push out 80 million vaccines around the world,” Blinken said at the US embassy in San Jose on his last day of a Latin American visit.
“We’re going to do that in coordination with Covax… based on science and needs… without any political strings attached,” the top US diplomat said, referring to the global vaccine-sharing program.
Biden recently announced a plan to release 20 million more doses over six weeks, bringing the total earmarked for shipping out by the end of June to 80 million.
Biden has said the move would seek to reclaim “American leadership” in the global fight against the pandemic.