{"id":196053,"date":"2021-07-23T23:35:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T21:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/coronavirus--niger-united-states-donates-an-additional-151200-covid19-vaccines-to-niger?lang=en"},"modified":"2021-07-23T23:35:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T21:35:04","slug":"coronavirus-niger-united-states-donates-an-additional-151200-covid-19-vaccines-to-niger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/coronavirus-niger-united-states-donates-an-additional-151200-covid-19-vaccines-to-niger\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus &#8211; Niger: United States Donates an Additional 151,200 COVID-19 Vaccines to Niger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/thumb\/4e4d81a2255fe58\/600\/418\" alt=\"U.S. Embassy in Niger\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Embassy in Niamey, Niger announces the donation by the United States Government of 151,200&nbsp;doses of the Johnson &amp; Johnson COVID-19 vaccine as part of the Biden-Harris Administration&rsquo;s global efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.&nbsp; The donated&nbsp;vaccines&nbsp;are part of&nbsp;the U.S.&nbsp;pledge&nbsp;to&nbsp;provide initially at least 25 million of&nbsp;80 million&nbsp;doses&nbsp;globally to&nbsp;Africa.&nbsp; The U.S. government coordinated&nbsp;closely with the African Union, Africa CDC, and COVAX on the country allocations.&nbsp;&nbsp;COVAX supported delivery of these vaccine doses, which&nbsp;arrived in Niamey on July 21, 2021.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>This donation will help protect the Nigerien&nbsp;people from the ravages of the COVID-19 virus and begin reducing barriers to building back the&nbsp;Niger&rsquo;s economy.&nbsp;&nbsp;&ldquo;These vaccines are in addition to the 400,000 vaccines we already helped deliver to Niger via COVAX.&nbsp; As part of our enduring commitment to Niger, we have also spent $12 million dollars to strengthen community engagement, ensure better risk communication, and supplies needed to prevent infectious diseases such as COVID,&rdquo;\u202fsaid&nbsp;Ambassador Eric Whitaker.<\/p>\n<p>These&nbsp;151,200&nbsp;doses are part of the Biden-Harris Administration commitment to share U.S. vaccine supply with the world.&nbsp; As we continue to fight the COVID-19 pandemic at home and work to end the pandemic worldwide, President Biden has promised that the United States will be an arsenal of vaccines for the world.<\/p>\n<p>As President Biden said:&nbsp;&ldquo;From the beginning of my presidency, we have been clear-eyed that we need to attack this virus globally as well.\u202f This is about our responsibility &mdash; our humanitarian obligation to save as many lives as we can &mdash; and our responsibility to our values. We&rsquo;re going to help lead the world out of this pandemic, working alongside our global partners.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of U.S. Embassy in Niger.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"well well-sm\"><b>Media files<\/b><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/c8e1372a80256f0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/c8e1372a80256f0\" alt=\"U.S. Embassy in Niger\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/c8e1372a80256f0\">Download logo<\/a><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Embassy in Niamey, Niger announces the donation by the United States Government of 151,200&nbsp;doses of the Johnson &amp; Johnson COVID-19 vaccine as part of the Biden-Harris Administration&rsquo;s global efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.&nbsp; The donated&nbsp;vaccines&nbsp;are part of&nbsp;the U.S.&nbsp;pledge&nbsp;to&nbsp;provide initially at least 25 million of&nbsp;80 million&nbsp;doses&nbsp;globally to&nbsp;Africa.&nbsp; The U.S. government coordinated&nbsp;closely with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-196053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-apo","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}