European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen get for the Meeting of the College of Commissioners astatine the European Parliament successful Strasbourg, eastbound France, Tuesday Sept.14 2021. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen volition present the 2021 State of the Union Wednesday. (Julien Warnand, Pool Photo via AP)

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen get for the Meeting of the College of Commissioners astatine the European Parliament successful Strasbourg, eastbound France, Tuesday Sept.14 2021. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen volition present the 2021 State of the Union Wednesday. (Julien Warnand, Pool Photo via AP)

BRUSSELS – The European Union is committing 200 cardinal much coronavirus vaccine doses to Africa to assistance curb the COVID-19 pandemic connected a planetary scale.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday that the caller donation to beryllium afloat delivered by the mediate of adjacent twelvemonth comes connected apical of 250 cardinal already pledged and underscores the EU resoluteness to boost the situation low-income nations are facing.

Von der Leyen called it an “investment successful solidarity and it is an concern besides successful planetary health.”

She said that connected apical of delivering 700 cardinal doses to Europeans, the 27-nation bloc had besides sent arsenic galore to a combined 130 nations.

“We are the lone portion successful the satellite to execute this,” she said successful her State of the European Union code to the European Parliament.

“Our archetypal and astir urgent precedence is to velocity up planetary vaccination," von der Leyen said. "With little than 1 percent of planetary doses administered to little income countries, the standard of injustice and the level of urgency is obvious.”

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