All EU Member States wish to continue procuring Covid-19 vaccines through joint procurement in 2022 and 2023. Most of them favour maintaining a ‘portfolio’ system of vaccines, combining messenger RNA vaccines with traditional vaccines.
These were the main conclusions put forward by the Portuguese minister, Marta Temido, at the end of the informal meeting of European health ministers on Thursday 20 May.
The meeting - which was attended by the European Commissioner for Health, Stella...