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United Kingdom “The EU should allow the export of vaccines” … Prime Minister Johnson speaks with the Presidents of Germany and P.
Johnson “EU leaders were relieved not to want to block vaccine exports”
The British government urged the European Union to allow exports of a new vaccine against coronavirus infection (Corona 19) developed by the multinational pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
A spokesman for the British Prime Minister’s Office said on the 22nd (local time): “We will not make a hypothesis, but it is clear that we do not want to impose restrictions on the export of vaccines,” Reuters and others said.
In the EU, it was heard that the AstraZeneca vaccine produced in the EU should not be exported to the UK but should be used only in the region due to the lack of the amount of vaccine that was originally decided to supply.
Earlier, an anonymous EU official said it had rejected the UK’s request to export the AstraZeneca vaccine produced at the Dutch plant.
EU Commissioner Ursula Ponderrayen also warned on the 17th that it could block the export of vaccines to the UK, saying AstraZeneca vaccines delivered from the UK to the EU are insufficient.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is known to have spoken by phone with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron the day before, saying that the export of the AstraZeneca vaccine should not be banned.
Prime Minister Johnson met with journalists that day and said: “I have been speaking with EU partners for the past few months and I have been relieved that they do not want to block (export).”
“I have told my colleagues several times that we are facing the same pandemic and we have the same problem,” he said. “The development and launch of vaccines is an international project and requires international cooperation.”
The EU will discuss the possibility of banning the export of the AstraZeneca vaccine to the UK at a summit meeting on the 25th.
Even within the EU, opinions are divided on the ban on exporting the AstraZeneca vaccine to the UK.
France, Germany and Italy support the regulation, while the Netherlands, Belgium and Ireland are more cautious, reports AFP.
Irish Prime Minister Meehole Martin criticized AstraZeneca’s export ban on vaccines to the UK as a regressive measure.
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