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Over 1 Billion COVID-19 Vaccines Doses Exported By EU
- Von der Leyen said that 87 million of the doses had been funnelled through the WHO-led Covax scheme…
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the European Union has exported “over one billion” doses of Covid-19 vaccines in the past 10 months, the bloc’s chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday.
“Very clearly, the European Union is the largest exporter of Covid-19 vaccines,” she said, announcing the “important milestone” in a brief broadcast and statement.
Von der Leyen said that 87 million of the doses had been funnelled through the WHO-led Covax scheme to mid- and low-income countries.
Most of the exports are orders paid for by other countries for Covid-19 vaccine doses manufactured in the EU.
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Von der Leyen said that, separate from the export figure, “the EU will donate in the next months at least 500 million doses to the most vulnerable countries”. She urged other countries “to step up, too”.
Her declaration comes in the context of a sharp divide between wealthier regions and poorer ones in terms of Covid vaccination rates.
The European Union, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Singapore and Japan all among those to have more than half of their populations fully vaccinated.
Meanwhile many countries in Africa and other places such as Afghanistan, Egypt, Myanmar and Syria have less than 10 percent of their people inoculated.
The European Union, which has 65.6 percent of its population fully inoculated according to an AFP tally of official statistics, has been stepping up exports of vaccines.
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