As part of these efforts, Blinken said, the United States helped broker a deal between Johnson & Johnson and Kovacs, the global initiative to distribute COVID-19 vaccines.
The announcement of these efforts came in a speech by Blinken during his participation in a ministerial meeting to combat the pandemic, at a time when some wealthy Western countries are being criticized for their failure to distribute vaccines to the most needy people around the world.
And the US Secretary of State considered that the delay in distributing the vaccine globally causes an “emergency,” highlighting that “10 percent of the population of the African continent took the vaccine, compared to high rates in European and North American countries,” saying that “this gap must be reduced.” .
Blinken expressed support for the World Health Organization’s goal of vaccinating 70 percent of the world’s population by September 2022.
But the American non-profit “One” organization said in a statement that it is not expected that poor countries will be able to achieve this goal, noting that half of the world’s population has not received the vaccine so far, and that in some poor countries only 4.2 percent of the population have received the vaccination. .
Other announcements from participants in the ministerial meeting include the launch of a comprehensive and integrated tracking tool for “Covid 19” managed by the World Health Organization to know vaccination rates, hospitalizations of patients with intensive care units, and pledged and provided vaccine doses.
As of November 7, the United States has donated about 235 million doses of Corona vaccines, with a goal of distributing one billion and one hundred million doses, according to the US State Department.
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