Evening Edition: Over One Billion COVID-19 Vaccines Promised To Poorer Nations

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Podcasts

News, Daily News, Politics

3.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Leaders at the 'G7 Summit' this past weekend promised to donate over one billion COVID-19 vaccinations to poorer countries in a continuing effort to achieve equal distribution. Many of those donated doses will go through the COVAX program, run by the WHO with UNICEF coordinating the procurement, supply and distribution. FOX's Trey Yingst speaks with Lily Caprani, Senior Advisor on Global Campaigns for the Office of the Executive Director at UNICEF, about the pledge by the G7 nations and what it means for the continuing global efforts to end the pandemic for good. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	It's time to take the quiz.
0:01.7	Five questions, five minutes a day, five days a week.
0:04.3	Take the quiz every weekday at the Quiz dot Fox
0:07.3	and then listen to the Quiz podcast to find out how you did.
0:10.2	Clay, share, and of course listen listen to the quiz at the quiz.
0:13.7	I'm Bill Hemmer.
0:15.6	I'm Janice Dean.
0:16.5	I'm Juan Williams, and this is the Fox News rundown.
0:19.4	Tuesday, June 15th, 2021. I'm Trey Inks. G7 leaders have promised 1 billion COVID-19 vaccines for poorer countries.
0:32.0	It's really important, I think, not to think of this as like a charitable exercise.
0:36.1	We're not saying the world should vaccinate everyone because it's a nice thing to do.
0:41.5	It's an essential thing to do to end the global pandemic for all of us.
0:45.7	This is the Fox News rundown, evening edition. The World Health Organization says coronavirus is spreading quicker than vaccine
0:56.3	efforts.
0:57.3	Some of the world's most vulnerable populations are looking to larger powers for assistance.
1:02.2	The United Nations Children's Relief Fund, known as
1:04.8	UNICEF, is providing key logistics help and encouraging countries with wide resources to
1:09.9	donate vaccines. Before the pandemic, UNICEF was already the world's biggest vaccinator because we deliver
1:16.8	all the immunizations around the world to about half the world's children.
1:20.4	So we're kind of experienced at buying vaccines shipping them out to
1:24.4	difficult to reach places and that's why we were asked to take part in the big COVID
1:28.6	vaccine rollout as part of the international effort Kovacs.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from FOX News Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of FOX News Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.