Coronavirus update - NO MORE RESTRICTIONS

[Elwood Blues]

Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't the vaccines being approved for use by individual countries and not the EU as a singularity?

I think they could have done but I think they agreed to approving it as a bloc.

[Vindec]

I think they could have done but I think they agreed to approving it as a bloc.

This seems to be the position in the extract below from an article written by a German:


"The sclerotic and sluggish EU machine has, unforgivably, botched the roll-out of the vaccines, and the consequences are likely to prove fatal to many thousands of our citizens........................................

My home country of Germany had, by Tuesday, vaccinated some 317,000 people — by far the most of the EU27.

Yet what a bitter irony it is that we who were crucial to the development and manufacturing of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab — BioNTech is a start-up based outside Frankfurt — must now watch lorry loads of supplies travelling to Britain while our own roll-out is beset by delay, uncertainty and fears about future supply.

Our health minister has warned that Germany will not be vaccinating at Britain’s rate until at least the summer, thanks to distribution problems and the EU’s ill-considered ‘cap’ on the number of doses that can be distributed to the various member states."