Joe Biden secures 200 million more coronavirus vaccine doses: report

President Joe Biden is set to announce a major victory in his battle against the coronavirus pandemic.

"President Biden is expected to announce Thursday afternoon that his administration has secured deals for another 200 million doses of coronavirus vaccine as promised last month," The Washington Post reported Thursday, citing "three people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to discuss it."

"The president is scheduled to tour the National Institutes of Health on Thursday afternoon and deliver remarks to staff there. He had indicated last month his administration was seeking another 200 million doses of the two vaccines authorized for emergency use in the United States to be available this summer — 100 million of the product developed by Pfizer and German company BioNTech, and 100 million of the product developed by Moderna," the newspaper explained. "The schedule for delivery of the additional doses was not immediately clear. The new deals are unlikely to make vaccine widely available much sooner than originally anticipated, but they would prevent a shortfall later in the year."

The Trump administration reportedly passed on an opportunity to purchase additional coronavirus vaccines.