Officials from Joe Biden’s government affirmed that the United States will distribute about 80 million vaccines against the coronavirus and that Latin America “will be a focus” of that decision, while they indicated that they will continue talking with Argentina about the offer to send planes to bring dose.
“Latin America is one of the most affected regions, if not the most affected in the world, and it will be a center of attention in our efforts to combat the pandemic,” said Juan González, Biden’s main adviser for this region, in a telephone press conference.
Foreign Minister Felipe Solá held a meeting days ago with the delegation that Biden sent to Ecuador for the inauguration of the president of that country, Guillermo Lasso, led by the US ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas Greenfield, and with the director for the Western Hemisphere of the Security Council of the White House, Juan González.
In a conference call held on Wednesday with journalists from the region, González and Thomas Greenfield indicated that they promised to continue talking with Argentina about the offer made by Solá to send planes to the United States to search for vaccines.
In the meeting I had in Quito with the US authorities, I made Argentine planes available to send the vaccines to our country to be distributed by your government. Today they pledged to closely follow the offer as they move forward with logistics. Https://t.co/znOkQo3fSE
– Felipe Solá (@felipe_sola) May 26, 2021
González participated this week in the US delegation that attended the inauguration of the president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, and said that in the conversations with the president, the commitment already announced by the United States to donate 80 million doses of vaccines against covid was recalled. -19 worldwide.
Asked about the possibility of the US supporting that effort with vaccine donations, González did not want to anticipate possible specific shipments and recalled that Washington wants to work together with the Covax global initiative and comply with international rules, although it will also make some deliveries of bilateral way. As he said, countries with high numbers of cases or major outbreaks will be looked at for this.
In addition, González pointed out that the US wants to think about future pandemics, expanding medical manufacturing capacities around the world and ensuring that the American continent also has production capacity.
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