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We have to go faster, stronger
”.
In a video released on Saturday by the charity Global Citizen, President Emmanuel Macron announced to double the number of doses of anti-covid vaccines planned for the poorest countries.
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In Africa, it is barely 3% of the population who is vaccinated
", underlined the Head of State, announcing that France would thus give 120 million doses, that is to say twice what had been announced until so.
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The injustice is that in other continents, obviously, vaccination is very late.
Because of us, collectively
”, launched the Head of State in a video sequence broadcast during the concert in Paris of Global Citizen.
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We will go from 60 million to 120 million offered doses.
In other words, more doses, to date, than we have done in the country
”.
Already on Wednesday, the United States announced its intention to double its donations of Covid-19 vaccines, bringing the total of doses promised to poor countries to more than 1.1 billion.
President Joe Biden made it clear with this gesture his intention to lead the global response to the pandemic.
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We need other high-income countries to put into practice their ambitious pledges,
" he demanded.
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The European Union, with which the United States intends to cooperate closely, will distribute more than 500 million doses in all.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, in a video message to the UN released on Tuesday, estimated that "
ensuring a fair and equitable distribution of vaccines around the world is an urgent priority
", and intends "to
provide a total of 2 billion doses of vaccine to the world by the end of the year
”.
However, China did not specify what proportion of these were sales or donations.
