Washington: US President Joe Biden said US was committed to provide half a billion vaccines to the needy countries. There is a need for several billions doses around the world, US is helping India and other countries to be able to produce the vaccines by themselves, he said.

US President Biden in a press conference on Tuesday at White House said that, we have committed to over a half a billion doses. And we’re trying to provide for more and provide for the capacity of countries like India to be able to produce the vaccine themselves. And we’re helping them do that. That’s what we’re doing now, he said in response to a question.

He also said and we’re trying to…by the way, it’s free. We’re not charging anybody anything. And we’re trying to do as much as we possibly can. Biden asserted the fight against Covid-19; the United States was committed to become the arsenal of vaccines, the manner in which it was the arsenal of democracy during World War II. We are backing up that commitment. We have contributed more than any other nation to COVAX as a collective global effort to deliver Covid-19 vaccines across the world. We have supported manufacturing efforts abroad through our partnerships with Japan, India, Australia – known as the Quad, he said.

We also announced that we would donate 80 million doses of our own vaccine to supply the world, which has already begun, Biden said, adding that so far, the US has shipped over 110 million doses of its vaccines to 65 countries, which are among the hardest-hit in the world. The democracies of the world are looking to America to lead again in two ways. First, to demonstrate we can control this virus at home. And second, to show we can help address it around the world. Vaccinate America and help vaccinate the world. That’s how we are about to beat this thing,” said Biden.