(Washington) Washington has delivered more than 335 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to 110 countries to date, as many doses as there are people in the United States, a senior official said on Friday. from the White House to AFP.
Responding to a request from Joe Biden to speed up donations, the US executive has distributed no less than 50 million doses over the past two weeks, he also argued, on condition of anonymity.
The American president had promised in September, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, that his country would donate a total of more than a billion doses to poor countries, promising to be the “arsenal” of the world in the fight against the pandemic.
And Washington repeats at the slightest opportunity that its vaccines are distributed without waiting for “consideration”, implying that this would not be the case for the doses distributed in particular by its great rival, China.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, who denies carrying out “vaccine diplomacy”, recently pledged one billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Africa, in the form of donations or support for local production.
A few days ago, Nicaragua received 200,000 doses of the anti-COVID-19 vaccine developed by the Chinese laboratory Sinopharm, shortly after severing its relations with Taiwan.