US to donate 1 mln doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine to Paraguay

ASUNCION - The United States said on Monday it will donate one million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine to Paraguay, offering relief to the South American country whose immunization program is moving slowly amid a new wave of COVID-19 cases.

State Department official Victoria Nuland announced during an official visit to Asuncion that the vaccines should arrive in Paraguay "in a few weeks." "We are going to donate one million doses of Pfizer vaccines to Paraguay," said Nuland, who also pledged help from Washington to accelerate delivery of doses through the global COVAX vaccine sharing program, co-led by the World Health Organization (WHO).