China Pledges Two Billion Vaccine Doses To World: President Xi Jinping

China has also promised to donate $100 million to Covax for the distribution of vaccines to developing countries.

China will "strive to provide" two billion Covid-19 vaccine doses to the world this year and donate $100 million to the international vaccine distribution system known as Covax, President Xi Jinping said Thursday. The pledge came in a written message by Xi to a video forum on vaccine cooperation as China battles a fresh outbreak fuelled by the highly contagious Delta variant. Delta has now been detected in parts of China, prompting mass testing and sending the number of daily cases to their highest in months. "For the whole of this year, China will strive to provide two billion doses of vaccine to the world," Xi said in remarks reported by state broadcaster CCTV.