Quad Partnership is back on Track! On Wednesday, Joe Biden announced production of at least 1 Billion Vaccine to be done in India by 2022. USA and its partners are effectively working on scaling up the production of Vaccines in other countries as well.
The Quad Partnership comprises of countries like Australia, India, Japan and the United States.
President Biden on Wednesday said, “We’re working with partner nations, pharmaceutical companies, and other manufacturers to increase their own capacity and capability to produce and manufacture safe and highly effective vaccines in their own countries.”
“For example, our Quad partnership with India, Japan, and Australia is on track to help produce at least 1 billion vaccine doses in India to boost the global supply by the end of 2022. And we’re providing financing and helping strengthen manufacturing in South Africa, and produce more than 500 million doses of J&J in Africa for Africa next year,” he added.
Mr. Joe Biden also announced, “Today, I’m announcing another historic commitment. The United States is buying another half billion doses of Pfizer to donate to low and middle-income countries around the world. This is another half billion doses that will all be shipped by this time next year, and it brings our total commitment to a donation, of donated vaccines, to over 1.1 billion vaccines to be donated.”
He also thanked the CEO of Pfizer for being instrumental in this endeavor. He also added, “Put another way, for every one shot we’ve administered to date in America, we have now committed to do three shots to the rest of the world”.
“They’ve been and continue to be partners and the leader of this fight. The United States is leading the world on vaccination donations. As we are doing that, we need other high-income countries to deliver on their own ambitious vaccine donations and pledges. That’s why today, we’re launching the EU-US vaccine partnership to work more closely together and with our partners and expanding global vaccinations,” Mr. Biden quoted.
Biden emphasized that nothing is more urgent than all of them working together to defeat COVID-19 and that the world is going to be much better prepared for future Pandemics. He also expressed that he is keeping the promise that America will become the arsenal of vaccines as it was the arsenal for democracy during World War II.