Coronavirus vaccine: US sends over one million doses to Bangladesh and Philippines

Ready to step up Bangladesh and the Philippines in the fight against coronavirus USA, as according to a White House official they will send them more than eight million doses of vaccines.

Five consignments containing a total of 5,575,050 doses of Pfizer / BioNTech are expected to arrive in the Philippines next week, with 2,508,480 doses to be delivered to Bangladesh. according to the official, who asked not to be named.

Donations will be made through the international COVAX mechanism, which is led by the World Health Organization, clarified the same source.

This is not the first time Washington has donated vaccine doses to COVID-19 in Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world: it has already sent millions. However, according to the French Agency’s database, only 10% of the country’s population has been fully vaccinated by this stage.

In the Philippines, a quarter of the adult population has been immunizedBut experts say the archipelago’s economy will take a decade to recover.

Overall, Joe Biden promises that The United States will donate more than 1.1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine in poor countries, in order to bridge the huge gap with the rich in terms of immunization campaigns.

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