Boxes containing some of 1,008,000 doses of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine against Covid-19, donated through Covax, on their arrival in El Alto, Bolivia, on July 11. AFP
Boxes containing some of 1,008,000 doses of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine against Covid-19, donated through Covax, on their arrival in El Alto, Bolivia, on July 11. AFP
Boxes containing some of 1,008,000 doses of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine against Covid-19, donated through Covax, on their arrival in El Alto, Bolivia, on July 11. AFP
The US will ship the doses this week to Rwanda through Covax, the global vaccine sharing initiative, an official said.
The shipment includes 188,730 doses that are the first instalment under an agreement Mr Biden struck at the G7 meeting, and another 300,000 from surplus US government supplies, which the US has been shipping off steadily.
They will provide a steep boost to Rwanda’s inoculation campaign, which has given out 1 million shots so far, enough for 4.3 per cent of the population, Bloomberg reported.
Authorities in the US and the African nation had worked together to smooth out legal and regulatory hurdles to enable the delivery, the official said.
Mr Biden began donating vaccines abroad as the US inoculation campaign slowed to a crawl in summer, only to rebound in recent weeks as the Delta variant drove a surge in new cases and hospital admissions, overwhelmingly among the unvaccinated.
Vaccines have been widely available in the US for months while most countries deal with shortages.
It made up the bulk of 613 million new doses pledged by those nations in a bid to start to narrow a wide gap between wealthy and developing countries on vaccine access.
A member of the Australian Defence Force assists people arriving at a vaccination centre in Sydney.
A laboratory technician prepares samples to be tested for Covid-19 at a testing centre in Yangzhou, China.
A protester uses a slingshot during a demonstration in Bangkok, calling for the resignation of Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha over the government's handling of the Covid-19 crisis.
Medics transfer the belongings of a Covid-19 patient to the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem.
Riley Shirley, 2, smiles while wearing a face mask after receiving shoes at the Hot Springs Community Resource Fair that provided free Covid-19 vaccines, shoes, backpacks and other resources in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Protesters face French riot police during a demonstration in Marseille, southern France. Thousands of people marched in dozens of cities across France for a fifth straight Saturday to denounce a Covid-19 health pass needed to enter restaurants, trains and other venues.
A government worker crosses signage at a village under lockdown in Manila, Philippines.
People wait to receive Covid-19 vaccine doses at the Iran Mall shopping centre, in Tehran, Iran.
An indigenous man of the Mahmeri tribe receives a dose of vaccine in Banting, near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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