Moreover, vaccinations here are moving on a very slow pace.
How incompetent the EU leadership is when it comes to protecting its citizens and their health is shown by the fact that there are no vaccines even in approximately sufficient quantities to meet the needs to vaccinate those most vulnerable people. All manufacturers have committed to deliver a certain amount of vaccines but then at a crucial moment they directed their production to some other countries.
Do you really need to be a detective to figure out where millions of doses of vaccine went missing, if at the same time the UK, Israel and the US don’t have those problems? The same thing that happened with protective equipment at the beginning of the pandemic is happening now with the vaccine - the EU has not yet realized that if it plays strictly according to the rules, it will not be able to vaccinate even 30% of the population by the end of this year.
Some countries, such as Hungary, have realized that they will not fare well if they rely entirely on the EU - so they have already agreed with the Russians and the Chinese on their vaccines and will soon implement them in their healthcare system.
The country of around 10 million people is scheduled to receive 600,000 doses of Sputnik and another half a million doses of Sinopharm’s vaccine this month, potentially allowing it to speed up its inoculation programme despite delays in Western vaccine deliveries.