The EU has offered China, faced with an explosion of contaminations, to offer it anti-Covid vaccines and to provide it with its "
expertise
", the European Commission announced on Tuesday 3 January.
Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides "
has reached out to her Chinese counterparts to offer them EU solidarity and support, which includes our public health expertise and donations of European vaccines tailored to the variants
", said said a Commission spokesperson, adding that Brussels was waiting for Beijing's response.
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End of “zero Covid”
The European executive had already indicated in mid-December that the EU was ready to "
supply China with vaccines
", but not to mention donations.
The Commission did not detail how many doses the EU could offer, or what stocks they would be drawn from, but stressed that the exact nature of European aid would depend on the Chinese response.
Beijing ended its draconian “
zero Covid
” policy in early December, leading to the explosion of contamination in the country, and will lift its quarantine obligations for travelers arriving from abroad on Sunday.
Worried about the lack of transparency on the Chinese figures and fearing the appearance of new variants, a dozen states, including several in the EU (France, Italy, Spain), are now imposing Covid tests on passengers from China.
