China News Service, February 7th. According to the "Central News Agency" report, on the 5th local time, German Chancellor Merkel and French President Macron held a video meeting and said that they support the EU's strategy for the procurement of new crown vaccines and said that "by The EU’s basic decision on unified ordering is correct."
On December 27, 2020 local time, many member states of the European Union officially launched the new crown vaccination work.
The picture shows Belgian medical staff preparing for the new crown vaccination work.
According to reports, Macron said at an online press conference after the meeting, "I fully support the EU's approach." He said that if countries like France and Germany compete with each other in vaccines, "it will be a mess. , Backfired."
Merkel also pointed out that the slow launch of vaccines means that the EU needs to increase its drug production capacity, "but the basic decision of the EU to order uniformly is correct."
Recently, due to the slow progress of the new crown vaccination, it has caused dissatisfaction with some EU member states. Merkel said in several media interviews this week that the EU and vaccine manufacturers are "speeding up the pace as much as possible" to speed up vaccination and expand production lines. .
Merkel pointed out that the EU has ordered enough vaccines for 450 million citizens in the country, but the initial shortage revealed that the EU's "production capacity is not as good as we thought."
She also said: "The production of vaccines is not an overnight task, these are complex processes."