United States President Joe Biden on Wednesday said that India, Japan, Australia, and the US are on track to produce 1 billion Covid vaccines in India.
Addressing the virtual summit on Global Covid-19, Biden said that the move has come to boost the global supply by the end of 2022, as he spoke about measures to combat the Covid-19 pandemic across the world.
Biden further emphasised that vaccination is the ultimate solution to Covid-19. He announced that the US is doubling its purchase of Pfizer's Covid-19 shots to share with the world to 1 billion doses.
"We’re working with partner nations, pharmaceutical companies, and other manufacturers to increase their own capacity and capability to produce and manufacture safe and highly effective vaccines in their own countries,” he said.
"For example, our Quad partnership with India, Japan, and Australia is on track to help produce at least 1 billion vaccine doses in India to boost the global supply by the end of 2022," he added.
Biden also claimed that for every shot that has administered been administered in America, three shots have been committed for the rest of the world.
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The US President said that the EU-US vaccine is partnering up to work more closely together on expanding global vaccinations. He said that the US should commit to donating and not selling the vaccines.
"And as we do so, we should unite around the world on a few principles: that we commit to donating, not selling — donating, not selling, doses to low- and lower-income countries, and that the donations come with no political strings attached," Joe Biden said.
"We support COVAX as the main distributor for sharing WHO-approved vaccines; and that we fight vaccine disinformation and exercise transparency to build vital public trust in these lifesaving tools," Joe Biden said.
