The United States is sending this week to Kosovo a contingent of 35.100 vaccines against COVID-19, a White House official told VOA.
He said the vaccines are delivered through the COVAX program and are part of the United States' commitment to play a leading role in the fight to end the pandemic around the world.
The doses for Kosovo are part of a half-billion-dollar purchase of the Pfizer vaccine provided by President Joe Biden earlier this summer.
The official said that the scientific teams and legal authorities of both countries have worked together to ensure the rapid and effective distribution of vaccines in Kosovo.
"We are proud to be able to deliver these safe and effective vaccines to the people of Kosovo. We are splitting these doses not to secure favors or issue concessions. Our vaccines do not come with a background. "We are doing this with the sole purpose - to save lives," he said.
The United States, the White House official said, is leading the world in a global vaccine strategy "because it's the right thing to do. "It's the right thing to do morally, the right thing to do from a global public health perspective, and the right thing to do for our collective safety and well-being."
The Biden-Harris administration, he said, is clear that ending this pandemic requires eliminating it worldwide.
In addition to the $2 billion donated to the COVAX program, the US Government has purchased 500 million Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines to distribute throughout the year to the African Union and 92 low-income countries. This represents the largest ever purchase and donation of vaccines from a single country and a commitment by the American people to help protect people around the world from COVID-19.
The announcement about the delivery of vaccines to Kosovo comes on the day when Kosovo recorded a record number of new cases of coronavirus, namely 2.236 new infections.
On Thursday, Kosovo also recorded eight deaths and 138 recoveries.
From March 13, 2020, until August 19, 2021, Kosovo has registered 123.098 cases of COVID-19. Of this number, 2.303 cases ended in fatality.
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