BRUSSELS -
"We have reached an important milestone: the EU has so far exported over a billion Covid-19 vaccines to the rest of the world"
, spending them "
in more than 150 countries
, including Japan, Turkey, United Kingdom, New Zealand, South Africa , Brazil ". This was announced by the president of the EU Commission,
Ursula von der Leyen
, underlining that
87 million doses have been delivered to low-middle-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.
"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. This is why
I will work closely with Prime Minister Draghi and President Biden
to rally the leaders. of the G20 next week at the Rome summit behind the ambitious goal of defeating the global pandemic ".
Concluded von der Leyen.
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