The president will make the announcement during a virtual global summit on the pandemic he will head on the margins of the
Up to now, the US has committed itself to donating more than 600 million doses, including 500 million
The new purchase will bring to more than 1.1 billion the number of vaccine doses that the US will send "free of charge" and "without preconditions" to nations around the world, the spokespeople said.
For every injection that the US has administered domestically up to now, the administration will donate three injections to other countries, one of the spokespeople said, emphasizing that "no other country" or group of countries in the world has even approached that level of contribution to dealing with the Covid pandemic.
The new doses will begin being distributed in
Meanwhile, the officials added that Biden will host a summit on the pandemic to run parallel with the
The US hopes that attending the pandemic summit will be heads of state, leaders of international organizations, private sector representatives, philanthropists and representatives of non-governmental organizations and other partners.
The officials emphasized that the gathering has an "ambitious objective" of getting the attending countries, including low and medium income nations, to establish the goal of fully vaccinating 70 percent of their populations against Covid before next year's
The meeting on the pandemic will be divided into four sessions, the first of which will be chaired by Biden and in which
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