The president of United States, Joe Biden, Announced Thursday that its government has closed deals to acquire an additional 200 million doses of vaccines against Covid-19.
“Just this afternoon, we signed final contracts for 100 million more lab doses Modern and 100 million more vaccines from Pfizer“, He said after touring the headquarters of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), near Washington.
“We are now on track to have enough supply to (vaccinate) 300 million Americans by the end of July,” he added.
The Biden administration said it was looking last month for such deals, which increase the U.S. stockpile of vaccines by 50 percent.
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The U.S. vaccination campaign got off to an unstable start in December, but has since improved: at least 34.7 million people have already received one of two doses of immunization, about 10 percent of the population.
In total, 46.3 million doses have already been applied and 68.2 million doses have already been distributed, according to official figures.
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Thousands of pharmacies were taking appointments on Thursday to start giving injections the next day.
The federal government has also used emergency legislation to increase vaccine production, opened massive vaccination sites in stadiums, and begun a separate program to reach neglected communities.
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