France and Germany call on the United States to open the market for vaccines and allow their export

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France and Germany today called on the United States to open the market for coronavirus vaccines and allow their export.

"I call on the United States to end the export ban not only for vaccines, but for the components of those vaccines that prevent production," Agence France-Presse quoted French President Emmanuel Macron as saying at the European Union’s Social Summit in Porto, adding that “the key to producing them faster for poor countries and intermediate countries is to produce more And lift the ban on exports.

In turn, German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her hope "to secure a free exchange of vaccine components and also open the vaccine market," noting that "the European Union has continued to export a large part of its production to the world and that should become the rule."

Yesterday, Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, renewed his call to the rich countries within the Group of Seven to give absolute priority to equitable access to vaccines, noting that more than 80 percent of Corona vaccines doses around the world are used in high-income countries.