Biden announces additional 500 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines for poorer nations

United States President Joe Biden has announced an additional 500 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to low and lower-middle-income countries.

He was speaking at the start of his much-anticipated virtual Global COVID-19 Summit on ending the pandemic and building back better to prepare for the next one.

President Cyril Ramaphosa, who also participated, lauded the US initiative as an important milestone in response by the global community to the COVID-19 pandemic but cautioned that the gulf was widening between better-resourced nations whom he again accused of hoarding vaccines.

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