Why is Europe so slow to deal with the epidemic? Other countries, from New Zealand to Taiwan, have clear and strong actions limiting the effects of the virus. The Venetian invented the concept of quarantine to prevent dangerous diseases or viruses to their merchant ships when they returned from their merchant ships. There is only one proven way to stop the spread of a disease and that is to stop ignition.

European countries tried this for a short time but quickly gave in to cry from businesses and Kovid deniers for whom earning money is more important to save lives. The leaders of Europe have no stupidity, as João Bolsonaro or Donald Trump, who refused to wear masks for months or, in Trump’s case, as Kovid – kept talking about the “Chinese” virus – to the 19 West. There was a modern communist plot to destroy.

Chauvinism is a contagious disease. French radio likes to talk about the “English version”, such as the wicked Anglo-Saxons inventing a new “Brexit” version of the Kovid, while the English minister likes to point out every day, that England alone Has done far more vaccination than the whole of France.

This question must be asked nonetheless: Why is Europe so far behind other regions of the world? Health has always been an enviously protected national competence and Brussels may have made a mistake in trying to gain its advantage as an institution to confront and defeat the virus. Each country has its own health care system, its own way of financing health care spending, its own traditions of precautionary principle and the government’s orders to follow when it comes to imposing a lockdown.

BioNTech-Pfizer Injection was developed by two Turkish Muslim immigrants in Germany and manufactured in Belgium by an American company. Vaccines do not carry the national flag “

London has just announced that no one will be allowed to enter the UK unless they have a PCR test showing negative results. After all! I had three trials to go to Greece in June, September and October. But to be honest, all of my tests showed that I did not have a virus when tested. I could get infected an hour or a day later, or just wait to go through checks at airports in London or Athens.

Now I have been vaccinated to only 250,000 other people, only in Britain on Saturday. I do not fully understand why the European Medical Agency did not authorize the vaccine developed by scientists and doctors at Oxford University before January 29 and the vaccine manufactured by the Anglo-pharmaceutical company. Swedish AstraZeneca.

BioNTech-Pfizer Injection was developed by two Turkish Muslim immigrants in Germany and manufactured in Belgium by an American company. Vaccines do not carry the national flag. Every day, thousands of UK citizens are vaccinated with the BioNTech-Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccine in party halls, rugby clubs or churches. National mobilization has never been seen since landing in Normandy.

The Bayonet-Pfizer vaccine should be stored at -80 ° C, while other developmental vaccines can be stored in a common refrigerator found in any clinic or doctor’s office. They are easy to administer – a quick and painless injection – and do not require any special expertise for administration. Other vaccines are coming. Do not make the best enemy of good. There is no complete vaccine, and viral diseases change and mutate and new vaccines are needed to catch up.

“All EU citizens have a European health insurance card or driving license. To enter the European Parliament, an identity card is issued. It should not be impossible to develop a vaccination passport “

But the sooner we immunize Europeans, the sooner we can return to making the European economy and society and new green policies the best in the world. Greek Prime Minister Kyarikis Mitsotakis, who suggested making a vaccinated passport, has the backing of European Commission Chairman Ursula von der Leyen.

All EU citizens have a European health insurance card or driving license. To enter the European Parliament, an identity card is issued. It should not be impossible to develop a vaccinated passport. There is no guarantee. Even with vaccination, I can get infected, but hopefully will not get sick. With PCR testing, there is no 100% reliable system to prevent the transmission of viruses. But the chances are very low with a vaccine.

Europe suffers from the lethargy of its national leaders. In the United Kingdom, ministers have been too slow to take the necessary measures of isolation and containment. Every day, three times more English people die of coronovirus than in France. Vaccination in England is done by the National Public Health Service and not by private insurers, with decisions made by doctors and professionals in the public health service, not by politicians.

President Macron and Chancellor Merkel, now in their final months in office, are hoping to take control of the European campaign against the virus. They should order European medical agencies to vaccinate and vaccinate in the arms of all Europeans as soon as possible.

Denis McShane is the former British Minister for European Affairs.