The EU will mobilize 220 million euros to finance transfers of patients with Covid-19 from one country to another, in order to relieve hospitals overloaded by the second wave of the pandemic, announced Thursday the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.
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To facilitate these transfers, states
"must share accurate and real-time data"
at European level
"for better coordination",
she said during a press conference at the end of a summit. by videoconference bringing together the 27 Member States of the European Union. She also assured that future vaccines would be available to all states
"at the same time and under the same conditions"
, depending on the size of their population.
