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“We must not be fooled by China and Russia, which have less attractive values than our regimes, by organizing very limited but widely publicized vaccine supply operations,” said the president of EVS.
His simple comment came as the 27th European Union nation found it difficult to jump-start vaccination campaigns with a plan to vaccinate 70% by mid-September. Adults.
The start of vaccination this year is accompanied by criticism of Brussels for leading the collective purchase of vaccine doses. The block did not receive many of the promised doses during the three months of this year.
The strategy was supported by the Member States and implemented by the European Commission.
The block did not receive a large part of the undelivered doses because the English and Swedish company AstraZeneca did not meet the delivery schedule to the European Union.
Some Member States, including Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, are increasingly turning to vaccines not approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), notably Russia’s Sputnik V and Chinese vaccines, to bridge the gap.
EVA has already launched a “continuous review” of Sputnik V, and the Italian and Swiss pharmaceutical company Adienne has agreed to manufacture it in Italy.
However, the European Commission has hinted that it does not want to include Sputnik V in its vaccine portfolio, which is expected to deliver 2.6 billion euros this year and next. dose.
According to EU officials, Russia and China are trying to score political points and expand their influence by rushing to supply their vaccines without being controlled by supervisory authorities.
Michel said that the EU, on the contrary, “actively promoted its values” by investing early in the development of COVID-19 vaccines and was a key driver in the COVAX project to supply vaccines to the poorest countries.
“Without Europe, it would not have been possible to develop and produce various types of vaccines in less than a year,” he said.
Michel also said that although the EU has a mechanism to monitor and, if necessary, block the export of vaccine doses from the bloc, it is “shocked by accusations of” vaccine nationalism “against the European Union.
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