The European Union has offered China free vaccines against the COVID-19 virus to help the Asian country cope with the massive outbreak being reported by the Chinese authorities after lifting restrictions.
The initiative by the European Commissioner for Health, Stella Kyriakides, was reportedly made in recent days, ahead of a meeting of the EU Health Commission, with the aim of organizing a European response to the wave of infections, several officials have told the ‘Financial Times’ newspaper.
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Commissioner Kyriakides would have thus approached her Chinese counterparts, who would not have given for the moment any response to the offer, according to the source consulted by the newspaper.
“The European Union is ready to offer its support, including expertise in public health and donations of vaccines,” the commissioner said a few days ago through her profile on the social network Twitter.
“Global health threats require transparency, solidarity and coordinated approaches across borders. We need to work together to address the impacts of the COVID-19 situation in China,” Kyriakides explained.
The international community has called for transparency from the Chinese authorities, as they doubt the data provided in terms of numbers of dead and infected.
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Meanwhile, some countries have implemented controls for travelers arriving from China, since the authorities lifted restrictions due to public demonstrations against Xin Jinping’s ‘Covid Zero’ policy.
