US sending additional Covid-19 vaccines to Honduras and El Salvador

The United States will begin shipping more than 3 million additional Covid-19 vaccines to certain Central American countries on Tuesday, a White House official told CNN.

The US plans to send ship 1.5 million doses of the Moderna vaccine to Honduras and 1.5 million Moderna doses to El Salvador through the global vaccination program called Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access, or COVAX, adding to prior shipments provided to both countries this year. The US will also provide 500,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine to Panama in a bilateral donation, the official said. White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced Monday that the US was also sending 3 million vaccines