To help supercharge the global fight against the coronavirus pandemic, the United States will purchase and donate half a billion Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines to 92 low, and lower middle-income countries and the African Union.
President Joe Biden, who is in England as part of his high-profile European tour, will make the historic announcement Thursday, the White House said.
This is the largest-ever purchase and donation of vaccines by a country to help protect people around the world from the pandemic.
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