Source: China State Council Information Office
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday called for waiving intellectual property rights protected by patents for COVID-19 vaccines in order to speed up production to assist countries in need.
“The health crisis has highlighted more than anything the need for joint action to address threats,” Mitsotakis said following a meeting with his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sanchez in Athens.
“The main issue today is how we will allow, using all the means at our disposal, the production of more vaccines and export them without hindrance to the countries in need,” Greek national broadcaster ERT quoted him as saying.
European citizens can breathe a sigh of relief as the European Union is very close to issue a Digital Green Certificate facilitating travel, making it safer and limiting the spread of the virus.
As early as January, Prime Minister Robert Abela had stressed the need for a system to certify vaccination in a letter sent to the president of the European Commission. Soon after, he had insisted on the urgency for such a European instrument with the rest of the leaders in the European Council.
The Maltese position resonated with Europeans as the European Commission proposed the Digital Green Certificate. The certificate will prove that the holder has received any of the vaccines approved by the European Medicines Agency, coupled with a negative test result.
Prime Time Reporter
There was a little something for almost everybody in Monday s easing of restrictions, whether it was eager shoppers getting their fix of shopping in Penney’s, or something as simple as a first haircut of 2021.
But there is a premium tier to this reopening – and it’s reserved for those who’ve been fully vaccinated. This is the vaccine bonus that we’ve been promised over recent months.
Nursing home visits had provided the first taste some weeks ago but, as of yesterday, there are new freedoms aimed at a much broader swathe of the inoculated.
Allowing one fully vaccinated household to meet with another unvaccinated household, without wearing masks or the need for social distancing, is a measure aimed at grandparents who’ve been starved of contact with their grandchildren for the last 14 months.
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