Washington (CNN) The Biden administration is considering sending some AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine doses stockpiled and waiting for official usage approval in the US over the border to Mexico and Canada, according to a senior administration official. "We requested as many (AstraZeneca doses) as possible." There are tens of millions of AstraZeneca doses stockpiled in the US and the company believes it will have roughly 50 million Covid-19 vaccine doses available to the US government by the end of April. AstraZeneca has been approved for use in both Canada and Mexico, and the company itself has asked the Biden administration to consider requests to donate inventory to other nations. Another top official in Mexico publicly asked the US to share AstraZeneca vaccines earlier this week.

Source: CNN March 18, 2021 00:00 UTC