Denmark's Austria waits for EU, will produce vaccines with Israel

Austria and Denmark, unhappy with the slow distribution of vaccines against Covid-19 in the European Union, have shared roads with Brussels to establish alliance with Israel for producing second generation vaccines against coronary mutations.

The change in policy of the two EU member states came at a time of growing anger for delaying orders, approvals and distribution of vaccines that have left the 27-nation bloc with 27 countries far away from Israel, which is an example in the world for mass population inoculation against Covid-19.

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said that while the principle for the EU to distribute vaccines for member states is correct, the European Medical Agency has been too slow for their approval and criticised the reduction of doses on the part of pharmaceutical companies, Reuters writes, the newspaper Express broadcast.

“Therefore, we need to prepare for excessive mutations and should no longer be dependent solely on the EU for producing second-generation vaccines”, the Austrian Chancellor said Tuesday, through a statement.

Denmark's prime minister, Mattte Frederiksen, also criticised the EU programme for inoculation. I don't think he can be alone, because we need to increase capacity. For that reason we are already lucky to start a co-operation with Israel”, she said Monday in front of reporters.

Asked whether Denmark and Austria wanted to take unilateral action to provide vaccines, Fredericksen said: “You can call it that. ”