The European Commission chose Wednesday to strengthen its mechanism for controlling exports of Covid-19 vaccines.

Objective: "to guarantee" supplies within the European Union, while the 27 continue to send doses to countries where vaccination is sometimes more advanced.

The European Commission decided on Wednesday to toughen its mechanism for controlling exports of anti-Covid vaccines produced in the EU, in order to "guarantee" the supplies of the 27 in the face of the third wave of the pandemic.

As the EU "continues to export significant volumes to countries" producing their own vaccines where immunization is more advanced, "we have adopted two adjustments to the current mechanism" to "resolve these imbalances," the deputy said. President of the European Executive Valdis Dombrovskis.

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