US to detail global distribution plan for 80 mn vaccine doses

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken

The United States will announce in the next two weeks how it plans to distribute 80 million Covid-19 vaccine doses it has pledged globally, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday. Speaking at a joint news conference with Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado, Blinken said the administration of US President Joe Biden would focus on equitable distribution of the vaccines and not tie political strings to the process, a criticism at times directed at China. ‘Sometime in the next week to two weeks - we will be announcing the process by which we will distribute those vaccines, what the criteria are, how we will do it,’ Blinken said during his first trip as secretary of state to Latin America, which is fighting to contain Covid-19. ‘We will distribute vaccines without political requirements of those receiving them.’