Biden announces ‘no strings attached’ global vaccine donation

The US president cast the plan as a bold move that shows the country recognises its responsibility towards the world.

United States President Joe Biden has announced a donation of 500 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to the world’s poorest countries to help speed the pandemic’s end, with “no strings attached”. Biden, keen to burnish his multilateral credentials on his first foreign trip as leader, on Thursday cast the donation as a bold move that showed the US recognised its responsibility to the world and to its own citizens. “The United States is providing these half billion doses with no strings attached. No strings attached,” Biden said, speaking alongside Pfizer Chief Executive Albert Bourla in the English seaside resort of Carbis Bay before a G7 summit.