{"id":197593,"date":"2021-08-07T15:28:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T13:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/coronavirus--mali-united-states-donates-covid19-vaccines-for-mali?lang=en"},"modified":"2021-08-07T15:28:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T13:28:50","slug":"coronavirus-mali-united-states-donates-covid-19-vaccines-for-mali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/coronavirus-mali-united-states-donates-covid-19-vaccines-for-mali\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus &#8211; Mali: United States Donates COVID-19 Vaccines for Mali"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/thumb\/d1f74301ce91c90\/600\/418\" alt=\"Ambassade des Etats-Unis au Mali\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Embassy in Bamako, Mali, announces the donation by the United States Government of&nbsp;151,200&nbsp;doses of the Johnson &amp; Johnson Janssen COVID-19 vaccine as part of the U.S. government&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;initially provide at least 25 million doses&nbsp;to Africa.&nbsp; The U.S. government coordinated&nbsp;closely with the African Union and African public health authorities on the country allocations.&nbsp; The&nbsp;vaccine doses&nbsp;arrived via COVAX in Bamako, Mali, on Thursday, August 5, 2021, and were delivered to the Ministry of Health and Social Development.&nbsp; USAID is working with Mali&rsquo;s Ministry of Health, UNICEF, GAVI, and WHO on plans for their distribution and usage among Mali&rsquo;s most vulnerable citizens.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Ambassador to Mali Dennis Hankins said &ldquo;This donation marks one more way we are supporting the Malian people to protect their health and prevent COVID-19 transmission.&nbsp; We are sharing these vaccines to help end the pandemic everywhere.&nbsp; While much of Africa is battling a serious third wave of the COVID-19 virus, we are helping Malians get ahead of such a resurgence of the virus here.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The United States is proud to be the largest single donor to the COVAX global initiative on COVID-19, through which these vaccines are being delivered.&nbsp; The&nbsp;151,200 doses delivered on August 5 are part of the U.S. commitment to share U.S. vaccine supplies 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 the United States will be an arsenal of vaccines for the world.<\/p>\n<p>As President Biden said in his remarks on June 10,&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 Ambassade des Etats-Unis au Mali.<\/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=\"Ambassade des Etats-Unis au Mali\" 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 Bamako, Mali, announces the donation by the United States Government of&nbsp;151,200&nbsp;doses of the Johnson &amp; Johnson Janssen COVID-19 vaccine as part of the U.S. government&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;initially provide at least 25 million doses&nbsp;to Africa.&nbsp; The U.S. government coordinated&nbsp;closely with the African [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197594,"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-197593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/coronavirus-mali-united-states-donates-covid-19-vaccines-for-mali.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197593","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=197593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}