Washington has so far delivered more than 335 million doses of anti-Covid vaccines to 110 countries, as many doses as there are inhabitants in the United States, a senior official of the House said on Friday (December 17th). Blanche to AFP.
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Responding to a request from Joe Biden to speed up donations, the US executive has distributed no less than 50 million doses over the past two weeks, he also argued, on condition of anonymity. The American president had promised in September, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, that his country would donate a total of more than a billion doses to poor countries, promising to be the "
arsenal
" of the world in the fight against the pandemic.
And Washington repeats at the slightest opportunity that its vaccines are distributed without waiting for "
consideration
", implying that this would not be the case for the doses distributed in particular by its great rival, China.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, who denies carrying out "
vaccine diplomacy
", recently promised Africa a billion doses of anti-Covid vaccines, in the form of donations or support for local production.
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A few days ago, Nicaragua received 200,000 doses of the anti-Covid vaccine developed by the Chinese laboratory Sinopharm, shortly after severing its relations with Taiwan.