British Prime Minister Boris Johnson addressed the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic during a Sunday interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation”, saying everyone should be vaccinated.
Speaking to host Margaret Brennan, the Conservative leader said he would ask the Biden administration and other rich nations to continue to support COVAX, the World Health Organization’s effort to deliver vaccines to poorer countries.
“There’s no point in vaccinating our people if we don’t vaccinate everyone,” Johnson said Sunday.
Johnson also addressed his administration’s response to the pandemic during his interview, including his government’s announcement Sunday that it had reached 15 million vaccinations. Johnson told Brennan that the total was “one in four” British adults receiving a dose of vaccine.
Today we have reached an important moment in the national vaccination program of the United Kingdom.
This country has achieved an extraordinary feat – managing a total of 15 million blows in the arms of some of the most vulnerable people in the country. pic.twitter.com/wPKCXPT8Td
– Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) February 14, 2021
“We are acting prudently,” he said of efforts to reopen schools and other parts of British society.
Adding the UK-born COVID-19 mutation, which is to blame for the latest rise in infections in the country, Johnson added: “It is absolutely true that it is spreading faster, but now what you see is the efforts of the British people. .. you will start to see that the rates start to fall more suddenly. “
The British leader and President Biden
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Johnson was also asked about the Senate’s acquittal of the former President Trump
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