The European Union has offered China free vaccinations against the COVID-19 virus to help the Asian country cope with the massive outbreak being recorded by Chinese authorities after lifting the restrictions. The initiative of the European Commissioner for Health, Stella Kyriakides, would have been carried out in recent days, before a meeting of the EU Health Commission, with the aim of organizing a European response to the wave of infections, according to what several officials have explained to the newspaper ‘Financial Times’. However, China on Tuesday declined the offer.
In this way, Commissioner Kyriakides would have come closer to her Chinese counterparts. “The European Union is ready to offer her support, including her experience in public health and vaccine donations,” 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.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman mao ning, has assured that his country has the largest production of COVID vaccines in the world. What’s more, since Beijing they have criticized the restrictions they have taxes on their passengers. “They lack a scientific basis,” Ning added in this regard. Meanwhile, concern around the world increases with images of saturated hospitals. The international community has called for transparency from the Chinese authorities, since doubt the data provided in terms of numbers of dead and infected.
The Chinese government only acknowledges three deaths in the last 24 hours, a remarkably low figure when its own health commission – in the words of its spokesman, Mi Feng – is already raising the tone. They have gone from preventing infections to “critical cases”. In Spain they already require the COVID certificate to passengers arriving from China. All tests have been negative. Although in Korea they detected this Monday 62 positive (1 in 5 travelers analyzed). The European Union will meet tomorrow in a health commission to try to adopt coordinated measures.
Source: Lasexta
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