US President Joe Biden promised on Thursday that 200 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine will be administered in his country before May, when his first 100 days in power will end.
Biden announced that goal, which is double the goal of 100 million doses he initially promised, during the first press conference of his term.
“Now, today, I am establishing a second objective, and that is that we will have administered, in my first 100 days in office, 200 million doses,” he stressed.
Biden acknowledged that it is an “ambitious” goal but showed his confidence that it is achievable.
So far, some 85.5 million people (25.7% of the population) have received at least one dose , of which 46.4 million (14%) have already been fully inoculated, since December 14, 2020. when the first was injected.
The United States is the worst hit in the world by the coronavirus pandemic with more than 30 million cases and more than 545,000 deaths from the covid-19 disease, according to the independent count from Johns Hopkins University.