The Biden administration is shipping 2.5 million doses of the Moderna vaccine to Pakistan, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Monday.
White House press secretary said that the vaccine will reach Pakistan during the current week.
Jen Psaki further said, “Thanks to president’s commitment to playing a leading role in ending the pandemic everywhere, 2 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine will begin to ship to Peru from the United States,”.
We are sending 1.5 million doses of Moderna to Honduras, and over this week we’ll be able to announce more places that the United States will be sending our doses, she said.
Last week it was reported that Pakistan is likely to receive Moderna’s mRNA-1273 coronavirus vaccine doses in the coming months through COVAX — the World Health Organisation’s global shared vaccine programme.
This was stated by officials from the country’s health ministry.
Ministry of National Health Services Regulations and Coordination official had said that talks were underway with COVAX to acquire the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine.
Pakistan recently received 100,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine through the COVAX facility and also made an agreement to procure 13 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer.
Originally published at The nation