EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19 / Trade

EU has exceeded one billion doses of Covid-19 vaccine exported

Brussels, 18/10/2021 (Agence Europe)

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced on Monday 18 October that the EU had exported more than one billion doses of Covid-19 vaccine. 

“Very clearly, the EU is the largest exporter of Covid-19 vaccines. [...] We have exported as much as we have delivered for our European citizens”, she said.

The one billion doses include those given to low- and middle-income countries through the Covax scheme (87 million) and those exported.

Of these, 837 million are...