Mexico Receiving 2.5 Million Doses Of AstraZeneca Vaccine After Biden Admin Was Pressured To Share

The United States plans to send millions of doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Mexico and Canada.

Mexico will receive 2.5 million doses of the vaccine and Canada will receive 1.5 million doses, a U.S. official said, reported The Guardian.

"This virus has no borders. We only put the virus behind us if we’re helping our global partners," the administration official told Reuters.

The Biden administration has come under pressure from countries to share vaccines, especially its stock of AstraZeneca's vaccine.

Mexico and Canada, which reportedly don't have the infrastructure to provide enough vaccines for their citizens, share interconnected economies with the U.S., but Washington is yet to give a green signal to export vaccine.

The Mexican foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard, said Thursday that a vaccine agreement with the U.S. had been reached. Details are yet to be finalized.

The news comes around the announcement that Mexico will close its northern and southern borders to non-essential travel. This has led to speculation that the two agreements are related.

However, the White House spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, said the vaccines deal with Mexico and increased immigration enforcement were “unrelated."

Meanwhile, responding to reports that the U.S. will be sending COVID-19 vaccine doses to Canada, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Thursday, "God bless America, they’re coming to our rescue." "Thank God, I’ve been bugging [Donald] Trump, I’m been bugging [Joe] Biden, all of them, they must get sick of Doug Ford asking for help," he added.