France to double COVID-19 vaccine doses for poorer countries

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PARIS: France will double the number of vaccine doses it will send to poorer countries to 120 million, President Emmanuel Macron pledged on Saturday (Sep 25), in a video broadcast during the Global Citizen concert in Paris. \u0022The injustice is that in other continents, obviously, vaccination is very late,\u0022 h

PARIS: France will double the number of vaccine doses it will send to poorer countries to 120 million, President Emmanuel Macron pledged on Saturday , in a video broadcast during the Global Citizen concert in Paris.

President Joe Biden described the pandemic as an"all-hands-on-deck crisis," adding"we need other high-income countries to deliver on their own ambitions".And China's President Xi Jinping, in a video message broadcast to the UN on Tuesday, pledged a total of two billion doses by the end of the year, repeating a figure already given by the Chinese authorities.

"If all the major powers do the same as France, we will reach 100 billion dollars for Africa," he added.Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization, has repeatedly denounced the injustice of the massive imbalance in the distribution of vaccine doses in rich and poor countries.

 

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