EU to donate 200m more vaccine doses to low-income countries

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The European Union is to donate another 200 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to low-income countries, more than doubling its present pledge, the bloc's chief Ursula von der Leyen has said, according to AFP.

“I can announce today that the [European] Commission will add a new donation of another 200 million doses until the middle of next year. This is an investment in solidarity, and it is an investment also in global health,” she told the European Parliament in her annual State of the European Union address.

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