International COVID-19 Vaccine-Sharing Plan Shared By US President Joe Biden

• ByStartupStory     |    June 4, 2021

US President Joe Biden, on Thursday announced the International COVID-19 Vaccine-Sharing Plan. The US will allocate 75 percent, nearly 1.9 crore of the first tranche of 2.5 crore doses of unused COVID-19 vaccines from its stockpile through the UN-backed COVAX global vaccine sharing plan to countries in South and Southeast Asia as well as Africa as part of his administration’s framework for sharing 80 million vaccines globally by the end of June.

President Biden, in a statement, provided details on how the US will allocate the first 25 million of the vaccines under the vaccine sharing plan to lay the ground for increased global coverage according to the needs of the most vulnerable countries.“At least 75 percent of these doses – nearly 19 million- will be shared through COVAX, including approximately 6 million doses for Latin America and the Caribbean, approximately seven million for South and Southeast Asia, and approximately five million for Africa,” Biden said further elaborating on the vaccine sharing plan “The remaining doses, just over six million, will be shared directly with countries experiencing surges, those in crisis, and other partners and neighbours, including Canada, Mexico, India, and the Republic of Korea, he said.

Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to three other world leaders and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and informed them regarding the vaccine sharing plan and that the US will start sharing the first 25 million doses of COVID vaccines with their respective countries.

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