Washington: The United States will share the COVID-19 vaccine with the rest of the world if it has a surplus, US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday.
“If we have a surplus, we are going to share it with the rest of the world. We have already decided we are going to work with the outfit COVAX. We’ve committed USD 4 billion to help get the funding for more vaccines around the world,” he told reporters at the White House.
“This is not something that can be stopped by a fence, no matter how high you build a fence or a wall. So we’re not going to be ultimately safe until the world is safe,” Biden said.
“So we are going to start off making sure Americans are taken care of first but we are then going to try to help the rest of the world,” Biden said in response to a question.
Earlier, the president lauded the “historic, nearly unprecedented collaboration” between Johnson and Johnson and Merck as he underscored the move to secure an additional 100 million doses of Johnson…