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The European Union offers free vaccines to China to deal with the outbreak registered in the country

MADRID, 3 Ene.

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The European Union offers free vaccines to China to deal with the outbreak registered in the country

MADRID, 3 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The European Union has offered China free vaccines against the COVID-19 virus to help the Asian country deal with the massive outbreak that the Chinese authorities are registering after lifting restrictions.

The initiative of the European Commissioner for Health, Stella Kyriakides, would have been carried out in recent days, before a meeting of the EU Health Commission, with the aim of organizing a European response to the wave of infections, as explained by several officials to the 'Financial Times' newspaper.

Commissioner Kyriakides would have thus approached her Chinese counterparts, who have not yet given any response to the offer, according to the source consulted by the aforementioned newspaper.

"The European Union is ready to offer its support, including expertise in public health and vaccine donations," the commissioner said a few days ago through her profile on the social network Twitter.

"Global health threats require transparency, solidarity and coordinated approaches across borders. We need to work together to address the impacts of the COVID-19 situation in China," Kyriakides explained.

The international community has asked the Chinese authorities for transparency, since they doubt the data provided regarding the numbers of deaths and infections.

Meanwhile, some countries have implemented controls for travelers arriving from China, since the authorities lifted restrictions due to public demonstrations against Xin Jinping's 'Covid Zero' policy.