The EU is offering Beijing to deliver a vaccine and is advising on joint measures against a new wave.
The new massive wave of corona in China, with an increasing number of people infected, is also becoming a race against time for the EU. EU health commissioner Stella Kyriakides offered Chinese leadership to help with expertise and a vaccine. The initiative is part of the Commission’s efforts to find a European response to the imminent wave of infections, reports the Financial Times. Because in member states there is growing fear of a new variant that could emerge due to the rapid spread in China.
Since Tuesday, health experts from all member states have been discussing new measures in Brussels. One problem with this, according to board circles, is valid data. Beijing emphasizes that the current variant of Covid is the same as the one currently circulating in the EU and the world. Mao Ning, a spokesman for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in Beijing on Tuesday that officials had shared “timely, open and transparent” information about the recent spread of the virus with other countries. However, the EU Commission in Brussels said the information would be compared with data available to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The wave of spread, which was triggered mainly by the abandonment of China’s Covid-zero policy, was likely accelerated by the fact that most Chinese citizens do not have enough antibodies from vaccines or from previous illnesses.