The United States plans to buy hundreds of millions of doses of the vaccine Pfizer/ BioNTech and donate them to the whole world, as the Washington Post writes, citing two unnamed officials.
The initiative is set to be officially announced early next week to coincide with the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
US President Joe Biden insists that vaccinating everyone is the way to defeat the new coronavirus. The United States is hosting an online summit on Covid-19 on the sidelines of the General Assembly.
According to a draft decision in the possession of Reuters, Washington is pushing world leaders to adopt its goals to end the pandemic, which includes vaccinating 70% of the world’s population by 2022.
The newspaper noted that the details of the vaccine purchase agreement are not final.
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