US To Buy 500 Million Pfizer Vaccine Doses, Donate Jabs Globally: Report

Biden will make the formal announcement at the G-7 meeting in Britain this week, the Washington Post and New York Times said.

The administration of President Joe Biden is buying 500 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to distribute among other countries, US media reported Wednesday citing people familiar with the matter. Biden will make the formal announcement at the G-7 meeting in Britain this week, the Washington Post and New York Times said. The move comes as the United States faces pressure to do more about the global vaccine shortage, with rich countries having bought up the lion's share of early supplies. The United States itself has fully vaccinated more than half its entire population, and the infection rate has plummeted.