Curing Covid-19: EU looks to secure millions of doses of vaccines
19 September 2020 |
4:33 pm
When will there be a vaccine for Covid-19? That's one of the big questions we're all asking right now - and it's a big question for policymakers in Europe too. In this episode of Talking Europe, we ask our panel of MEPs when and how European citizens are likely to get access to vaccines and treatments that would allow a return to some kind of normality.
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