Thread by @EU_Commission

For more than a year, our priority has been to lead the way out of the global health crisis.

Find out more in our new brochure and in our thread ↓

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Firstly, we worked on procuring vaccines to Europeans.

A broad portfolio was created and today more than 70% of the adult population is fully vaccinated.

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In the spirit of European solidarity, we mobilised funding to support:

🩺 the delivery of equipment, medicines, antigen tests
🔬 urgent research into variants

More than €7.6 billion was reallocated under the Coronavirus Response Investment Initiative.

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As soon as the health situation improved, we worked on a safe and gradual reopening of Europe.

We created the #EUCovidCertificate to travel safely and launched #ReopenEU as an information hub and travel planner.

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We’ve been working on a stronger European Health Union, focusing on emergencies, prevention and treatments.

In this spirit we created the #HERA incubator, we presented a new #EUCancerPlan, and adopted the #EUPharmaStrategy and #EU4health programme.

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The EU has been leading global efforts on vaccine exports.

We helped mobilise pledges from countries through the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator #COVAX.

The #GlobalHealthSummit also marked the beginning of a new chapter in global health policy.

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