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“The member states themselves are under a lot of pressure to get the vaccines,” he told the German newspaper Funke Media Group.
However, Mr von der Leyen stressed the EU’s financial support for the World Health Organization’s COVAX initiative, which aims to provide vaccines to the poorest countries.
“The EU has invested 2.2 billion euros in this initiative. Euros. COVAX has already delivered about 30 million doses of the vaccine to 52 countries around the world,” said the politician.
An EU mechanism that allows the Union to share vaccines directly with other countries will not be launched “until we have increased production in the EU,” von der Leyen said.
A year ago, the President of the European Commission campaigned strongly for vaccines for people around the world. But now most doses are concentrated in rich states.
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