(ANSA) - BRUSSELS, OCTOBER 18 - "In addition to exports, the EU is doing its part: we will donate at least 500 million doses to the most vulnerable, but other countries must come forward. For this I will work closely with Prime Minister Draghi and the President Biden to gather G20 leaders next week at the Rome summit behind the ambitious goal of defeating the global pandemic ".
This was declared by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
"We have reached an important milestone: the EU has so far exported over a billion doses of the anti-Covid-19 vaccine to the rest of the world", distributing them "in more than 150 countries, including Japan, Turkey, United Kingdom, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil. "recalled von der Leyen, underlining that 87 million doses were delivered to low-medium income countries through the Covax platform.
"We have kept our promise, we have always shared our production capacity equally with the rest of the world" with "at least one in two doses produced in the EU sent abroad", he adds.
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