United States shipping Covid-19 vaccines to Indonesia, Bhutan, Nepal


WASHINGTON, July 910 (Reuters): The United States is shipping 3 million doses of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine to Indonesia, with another 1.5 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine heading to Nepal and 500, 000 Moderna doses to Bhutan, a White House official has confirmed.

The shipments are part of the Biden administration's pledge to share an initial batch of 80 million US-made vaccines globally amid concern about the wide disparity in vaccination rates between advanced and developing countries.

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