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Six countries demanded more Covid-19 vaccines from the European Union on Wednesday, the latest setback to the bloc’s troubled inoculation campaign that risks undermining plans to restart travel this summer to support the battered tourism sector.
Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Latvia and Slovenia expressed concern “about possible gaps in the distribution of vaccines between member states,” an EU official said, amid strong pressure facing the EU due to the reduction of AstraZeneca deliveries.
The slow vaccination campaign threatens the European Commission’s plans to launch a “green digital certificate” that would collect information on vaccines, tests and Covid recovery to allow travelers to cross borders freely again after a year of curbs they have left. beaches and famous desert places.
Tourism-dependent southern EU countries and other proponents of the new Covid-19 certificate hope it will get final approvals in June and go online just in time for peak season.
But with the number of Covid-related deaths in the EU above 550,000 and less than a tenth of the vaccinated population, countries like France, Belgium and Germany have expressed skepticism.
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