The European Union will donate 500 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, the head of the European Commission announced on Monday.
“The European Union has exported over 1 billion vaccine doses worldwide over the past 10 months,” Ursula von der Leyen said in a video statement.
Calling it “an important milestone,” she explained that the bloc had exported COVID-19 jabs “to more than 150 countries on all continents, from Japan to Turkey, from the UK to New Zealand, from South Africa to Brazil.”
She also promised that “the EU will donate in the next months at least 500 million doses to the most vulnerable countries.”—AFP
