«We must vaccinate and we must be able to sequence the virus in order to immediately react to variants of concern as in the case of the new variant B.1.1.529. And we need to increase the global vaccine manufacturing capacity. For this we must work together ». With these words, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, traced the way to defuse the danger of a great wave of coronavirus capable of overriding the current vaccines in the final press conference of the EU-Asia Summit.
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While the first case of the new coronavirus variant in South Africa, B.1.1.529, has been isolated in Belgium and the World Health Organization (WHO) is preparing to join together to determine whether this type of Covid should be classified as’ ‘worrying’ ‘, while saying that “it has a large number of mutations”, the president of the European Commission has once again focused on cohesion. “Global solidarity is vital to put an end to the pandemic – he added – we intend to work together on the pharmaceutical supply chains”. We must “act decisively and together”, adapting “the vaccii immediately”. Italy – to “suspend flights from the affected countries of the variant”.
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