USA: We will guarantee global access to coronavirus vaccines

The US will become the “leader” country in the coming months in terms of global access to vaccines for the new coronavirus, after the first deliveries in Mexico and Canada, assured yesterday Monday the head of the American diplomacy, the Anthony Blinken.

China and Russia are stepping up announcements about vaccine doses around the world as part of the ever-intensifying “vaccine diplomacy”.

Washington, which has in particular tens of millions of doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which is not currently licensed for emergency use by US regulators, has announced agreements to supply 2.5 million doses to Mexico. and 1.5 million in Canada.

“I anticipate that once we continue to vaccinate the entire American population, we will be able to do even more around the world,” he told a UN-sponsored digital conference with journalists accredited by the United States. does not stop accelerating.

“In the coming months, I am convinced that the United States will become the leading power that guarantees access to vaccines (for the new coronavirus) worldwide,” Mr Blinken was quoted as saying by AMPE.

The president Joe Biden announced yesterday Monday that the 90% of American adults will be able to receive it First installment of their new coronavirus vaccine within three weeks throughout the territory.

The Democratic president had said from the beginning that he would give priority to the U.S. population before considering distributing possible vaccine surpluses to other states that are delaying their own immunization campaigns.

His boss State The Department also recalled that Washington had contributed $ 2 billion to COVAX, the World Health Organization’s mechanism to ensure the supply of vaccines to lower- and middle-income countries, while it has pledged to “To the extent that other countries will increase their own participation.”

He also referred to the initiative announced in mid-March by Joe Biden and the Prime Ministers of Japan, Australia and India, to produce a billion doses of Japanese and US-funded vaccines from the Indian pharmaceutical industry with a focus on Australian logistics Southeast Asia.

The initiative was presented by the American side as a tangible move to confront China.

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