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Delivered over 200 million vaccine doses to European people: EU Commission President

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Delivered over 200 million vaccine doses to European people: EU Commission President

Delivered over 200 million vaccine doses to European people: EU Commission President

President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen on May 08 informed that so far, European Union (EU) has delivered over 200 million doses (of vaccine) to the European people, and close to 160 million Europeans have been already received the first shot of the vaccine.

"We have now delivered over 200 million doses (of vaccine) to the European people.

So we are on track to achieve our projective of enough doses being delivered in July to vaccinate 70pecvent of the European adult population," Leyen said.

"Of course, delivering vaccine doses is good but vaccination is even better.

Close to 160 million Europeans now have already received the first shot of the vaccine, that's over 25percent of the EU population,' she added.


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