The US government has announced that 335 million doses of anti-covid vaccines have been delivered to 110 emerging countries. An acceleration of doses to fight against the pandemic against a background of rivalry with China
Washington has delivered more than 335 million doses of the Covid vaccine to 110 countries to date, a senior White House official said on Friday.
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 “arsenal” of the world
Joe Biden 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 by pandemic control. These vaccines will be distributed without waiting for “counterpart”, 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 promised Africa a billion doses of vaccine in the form of donations or support for local production. Nicaragua has also received 200,000 doses of the anti-Covid vaccine developed by the Chinese laboratory Sinopharm, shortly after severing its relations with Taiwan.
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