© ROBYN BECK US-health-VIRUS-VACCINE the U.S. is determined to bring 503,one hundred doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to the Republic of Kosovo this weekend. vice president Kamala Harris delivered the information to Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu all over a mobilephone call Friday.
The doses, that are anticipated to reach Saturday, will come via COVAX and are a considerable addition to the 35,000 doses the U.S. had already delivered in August.
In a readout of the name between Harris and Osmani-Sadriu, received exclusively via CBS news, the vp additionally thanked Osmani-Sadriu for Kosovo's suggestions within the evacuation efforts from Afghanistan and expressed her appreciation for the temporarily housing Kosovo has supplied to prone Afghans at Camp Bondsteel, in japanese Kosovo.
The donations come because the nation of roughly 1.7 million people has skilled a sharp upward push within the number of COVID-19 situations. based on the world health firm, the country had 13,475 tested COVID-19 cases throughout the week of August 23 and has recorded 2,516 COVID-19 deaths between January three, 2020 and September 2, 2021. Kosovo reportedly determined to destroy 133,000 expired AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines. to this point, 808,078 vaccine doses were administered in the country.
closing week throughout a trip to Vietnam, Harris additionally announced plans for the U.S. to ship an further 1 million Pfizer doses to the Southeast Asian nation. In complete, the U.S. has sent Vietnam 6 million doses.
"i do know the Vietnamese people are dealing with a tough time at this time with COVID-19. We additionally understand that early within the pandemic, Vietnam become beneficiant in assisting the U.S. once we have been in a time of want, with over 250,000 PPEs and masks being brought to our country once we mandatory them." Harris referred to throughout remarks given in Hanoi. "So we're proud to reciprocate in a time of want, most lately with these 1 million Pfizer vaccines."
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