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Covid: Von der Leyen calls on EU to share vaccines with Kiev

2021-02-08T18:55:30.508Z


The president of the European Commission on Monday called on EU countries to " donate some " of their vaccines to Ukraine, after Kiev, which refused the Russian vaccine, called on Europeans for help in get. To read also: Ursula von der Leyen: "What is prohibited in the real world must also be prohibited online" " I have asked our member countries to donate part of their doses to Ukraine, " said


The president of the European Commission on Monday called on EU countries to "

donate some

" of their vaccines to Ukraine, after Kiev, which refused the Russian vaccine, called on Europeans for help in get.

To read also: Ursula von der Leyen: "What is prohibited in the real world must also be prohibited online"

"

I have asked our member countries to donate part of their doses to Ukraine,

" said Ursula von der Leyen, during a televised speech at a conference on the pandemic in Kiev.

The EU is on the side of Ukraine

” because “

we are a European family

”, she assures us.

Start of campaign in mid-February

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recently denounced the problems of access to the vaccine in the face of competition from rich countries.

In particular, he called on the EU to help its eastern neighbors to obtain them.

Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday, during the conference attended by Ursula Von der Leyen, that Kiev is negotiating vaccines with neighboring Poland.

Ukraine plans to start its vaccination campaign in mid-February, as soon as it has received the first batch of 117,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine as part of the UN Covax program, which is to provide the country with 8 million doses in total.

Kiev is also counting on 12 million doses of vaccines developed by the British groups AstraZeneca and American Novavax and manufactured by the Indian Serum Institute.

Ukraine plans to purchase 1.9 to 5 million doses of the Chinese Sinovac vaccine if the latter's effectiveness is confirmed.

Read also: Coronavirus: Ukraine calls on the EU to help ex-USSR countries obtain the vaccine

In the evening, Volodymyr Zelensky also spoke by telephone with the general manager of the American group Pfizer, Albert Bourla, to discuss "

the conclusion of a contract for the delivery of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine as soon as possible

" , announced the presidency in a press release.

Negotiations with Pfizer relate to “

millions

” of doses, presidential spokeswoman Yulia Mendel told AFP.

Earlier today, Volodymyr Zelensky pledged to be vaccinated "

live

" in order to "lead by

example

" when more than half of Ukrainians, according to polls, say they are not ready to be immunized.

Read also: Covid-19: Sputnik V, a very political Russian vaccine

On the other hand, he reiterated his refusal to use the Russian vaccine Sputnik V, arguing doubts about its effectiveness despite the publication in a major British medical journal of favorable conclusions.

"

Ukrainians are not human guinea pigs

," he says.

One of the poorest countries in Europe, this former Soviet republic of 40 million inhabitants with a dilapidated public health system has so far recorded nearly 1.2 million cases of Covid-19, including nearly 24,000 deadly.

Relations between Kiev and Moscow are at their lowest since Russia's 2014 annexation of the Ukrainian Crimean peninsula followed by the outbreak of war with pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.

Source: lefigaro

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