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US President Biden hopes to send AstraZeneca vaccine to countries by July 4 President Joe Biden provided an update on White House on goals for providing AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to countries by July 4
Washington [US], May 5 (ANI): President Joe Biden on Tuesday (local time) provided an update from the White House on goals for providing AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine to countries by July 4. "I am not prepared to announce who else we will be giving the vaccine to, but we are going to by the Fourth of July have spent about 10 per cent of what we have to other nations including some of the ones who you mentioned," said Biden while responding to a question about when vaccines will be provided to countries like India and Brazil.
"We're helping Brazil and India, significantly. I spoke to Prime Minister Modi. What he needs most is the material and the parts to be able to have his machines that can make the vaccine work, we're sending oxygen. We're sending them a lot of the precursors. So, we're doing a lot for India," he said. The US will be sending 60 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to other countries starting from June 2021, the White House announced earlier. "That means of all the vaccines we produced for the United States at that time, we will have given about 10 per cent to the rest of the world as a significant humanitarian commitment in addition to our funding of COVAX," said Biden. On Tuesday, Biden announced a plan of ensuring 70 per cent of American adults receive at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine by Independence Day. "Our goal by July 4 is to have 70 per cent of adult Americans with at least one shot and 160 million Americans fully vaccinated," Biden said at the White House on Tuesday.