U.S. to donate 500M more Covid vaccine doses to lower-income countries, administration official says.
The doses will bring the total number of shots the U.S. plans to donate to 1.1 billion, nearly 160 million of which have already beenand 200 million of which are expected to go out by the end of the year, an administration official said. The remaining 800 million will be sent out by next September.
So far, about 6 billion vaccine doses have been given, with rates varying widely among countries. Some, like Portugal and Singapore, have had more than 80 percent of their populations vaccinated, while less than 1 percent of the population has received the shots in other countries, like Haiti and Tanzania. On average, just 20 percent of people in lower-income countries are vaccinated, compared to around 80 percent in the wealthiest countries, according to the WHO.
The WHO has said it will take 11 billion doses to vaccinate at least 70 percent of the world's population, and it has called for a"moratorium" on booster shots until more countries have access to the vaccines.
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