EU: ‘70% of the population can be vaccinated by July 14th’

The EU Commission's Vice-President, Margaritis Schinas, said confidently yesterday that the European Union will reach its goal of vaccinating 70% of the population during the summer, naming Bastille Day, July 14th, as the day the target will be reached, announcing it on the same day as the Canaries reached 100,000 people with two doses.

Europe is on target to meet this goal despite the problems with AstraZeneca, which only delayed a small part of the plan. Schinas admitted yesterday, at the Ciclo Europa Futura meeting, that the EU was naive in not insisting from the first week on compliance in their agreement with the pharmaceutical company.

He pointed out that "when we are approaching the final phase of vaccination, there will be an explosion of mobility and demand, which must be used to reactivate the European economy in the second half of the year.”