{"id":154322,"date":"2023-01-03T22:39:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T04:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/eu-offers-china-free-vaccines-as-covid-19-infections-surge"},"modified":"2023-01-03T22:39:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T04:39:05","slug":"eu-offers-china-free-vaccines-as-covid-19-infections-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/eu-offers-china-free-vaccines-as-covid-19-infections-surge","title":{"rendered":"EU offers China free vaccines as COVID-19 infections surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/eu-offers-china-free-vaccines-as-covid-19-infections-surge2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BRUSSELS, Jan 3 (Reuters) \u2014 The European Union has offered free COVID-19 vaccines to China, the EU executive said on Tuesday, <a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/china-state-media-plays-down-severity-covid-wave-before-who-meeting-2023-01-03\/\" class=\"\">as infections there surged<\/a> following Beijing\u2019s relaxation of its \u201czero-COVID\u201d policies.<\/p>\n<p>China has not responded to the offer yet, a spokesperson for the European Commission told journalists at a regular briefing. He did not specify the amount of vaccines the EU was offering or their manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn view of the COVID situation in China, (Health) Commissioner Stella Kyriakides has reached out to her Chinese counterparts to offer EU solidarity and support,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS, Jan 3 (Reuters) \u2014 The European Union has offered free COVID-19 vaccines to China, the EU executive said on Tuesday, as infections there surged following Beijing\u2019s relaxation of its \u201czero-COVID\u201d policies. China has not responded to the offer yet, a spokesperson for the European Commission told journalists at a regular briefing. He did not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}