Covid Usa, Biden: “We will be vaccine arsenal in the world, we will donate 500 million doses”

” The United States will be the arsenal of coronavirus vaccines in the world ”. US President Joe Biden said this when he announced that Washington will donate 500 million doses of Pfizer vaccine against Covid-19 to 92 middle and low-income countries. Speaking in Cornwall, UK, during the G7 summit, Biden said that “these Pfizer vaccines will save millions of lives around the world and will be produced thanks to the power of American manufacturing.” “We are doing it to save lives, to end this pandemic, that’s all. Period,” Biden said, announcing the donation to a hundred nations that “are in dire need”. It is, he continued, “an important step in a struggle that is global”. The vaccines will begin shipping in August and 200 million doses will be delivered this year, the US president said speaking from St. Ives, England. Three hundred million will be delivered in the first half of 2022, he continued. Saying that the vaccination campaign in the United States has “saved tens of thousands of lives,” Biden stressed that it has “ allowed millions, millions of Americans to return to life. their lives. Since the beginning of my presidency, we have made it clear that we must also attack this virus globally. This is our responsibility. “” Right now, our values ​​ask us to do everything possible to vaccinate the world against Covid-19. It is also in America’s interest. As long as the virus rages elsewhere, there is a risk of new mutations that could threaten our population, “he added. Speaking of his meeting with Boris Johnson:” We have affirmed our special relation, as a special relationship between our peoples and renewed commitment to defend the values ​​of democracy we share “. A” very productive “meeting during which” a wide range of issues on which the United States and the United Kingdom work in close cooperation “were discussed. a statement that renews “the strong foundation of our alliance”, the Atlantic Charter signed 80 years ago, Biden stressed that the renewed commitment to tackle together “the key challenges of this century: cybersecurity, emerging technologies, global health and climate change”. “We discussed common goals in advancing an ambitious action plan for the climate crisis,” he concluded.