EU celebrates coronavirus vaccine rate exceeding US programme

European Union leaders on Saturday celebrated their coronavirus vaccination programme reaching a higher proportion of its people than in the US, which had outpaced the bloc for months.“We promised it and it’s done. The EU this week overtook the US as the continent with the most first doses in the world,” EU Commissioner Thierry Breton wrote on Twitter.Citing statistics website Our World in Data, France’s Europe minister Clement Beaune wrote that the EU had now given 55.5 per cent of people a…

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