[글로벌리포트]EU-British conflict temporary suturing criticism of’vaccine nationalism’

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The vaccination conflict between the EU and the UK has been closed.

There have been criticisms of’vaccine nationalism’ in the EU for banning the export of vaccines produced in Europe, and the UK is not free from such accusations.

Even after Britain’s withdrawal from the EU, so-called’Brexit’, the promise of continuing friendship was broken within less than a month of the vaccine.

First, reporter Kim Soo-jung will tell you how the UK and EU vaccine supply and demand are different.

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The UK and the EU, which had hit the AstraZeneca supply shortage, have briefly retreated from the vaccination conflict.

In the midst of the vaccine crisis, the EU announced that it would block the export of vaccines produced in Europe to the UK, but withdrew after being criticized by the international community such as the World Health Organization and WHO.

[테워드로스 아드하놈 거브러여수스 / WHO 사무총장 : 이는 세계 취약계층 사람들을 위험에 빠뜨릴 뿐만 아니라 근시안적이고 자멸적인 일입니다. 백신 민족주의로는 팬데믹을 멈출 수 없습니다.]

The conflict with AstraZenecaza, which the EU foretold legal action, was barely closed with the EU receiving an additional 9 million batches.

EU Commissioner Urzula Ponderrayen said he had made progress on the vaccine, but he was satisfied with half of what was originally planned.

While the EU, which has 27 countries as one, is disrupting vaccination distribution and vaccination, the UK vaccination is smooth.

Medical staff, nursing home facility officials, and severely ill patients vulnerable to corona infection are given priority.

As of the 31st of last month, less than two months after starting the vaccination, more than 8 million people, about 12% of the population, completed the first vaccination.

[김규자 / 킹스톤 병원 백신 접종 간호사 (화이자 1차 접종) : 지금은 아스트라제네카하고 화이자가 지금 동시에 접종하기 때문에 내가 화이자를 맞기를 원하지 않으면 아스트라제네카를 선택할 수 있어요.]

Currently, the UK government has signed vaccine supply contracts with 7 pharmaceutical companies, including Modena and Johnson & Johnson, in addition to Pfizer and AstraZeneca.

The response of people to the vaccination is positive amid the evaluation that the vaccine supply is also progressing smoothly.

[박옥진 / 대학병원 간호사(아스트라제네카 1차 접종) : 여기 보시면 어떤 백신을 맞았는지, 그리고 언제 맞았는지 그리고 백신 접종을 한 분이 누구인지 서명이 돼 있어요. 첫주 같은 경우에는 백신 접종하는 분들이 그렇게 많지 않았어요. 일단은 백신 맞은 분들 반응이 어떤가 하고 두고 보고 맞겠다 했는데 두 번째 주부터는 거의 모든 분이 접종하셔서 사실 우리 병원의 (의료진) 90% 이상 2천 명이 1차 접종을 끝낸 상태입니다.]

There are also concerns that the vaccine conflict, which has been closed for a while, could reignite at any time, as the vaccine supply shortage in Europe remains.

In particular, as some countries, such as Germany and France, adhere to the opinion that they will hold AstraZeneca for legal responsibility, the noise surrounding the supply and demand of vaccines within the EU is expected to continue for a while.

This is Soo-Jung Kim from YTN World in London, UK.

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