South Korean President Moon Jae-in thanked Biden at a joint news conference on Friday at the White House and said the move extended the two countries’ alliance “to the field of health in a meaningful measure.”
The two leaders also unveiled a new vaccine partnership to expand manufacturing and scale up global vaccine supply.
“We believe that between the second half of 2021 and going in through 2022 we could produce as many as another billion doses of vaccine,” Biden said.
Biden commended his South Korean counterpart for focusing on vaccinating the entire Indo-Pacific region.
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