If they give it the go-ahead, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said that vaccinations will begin across the continent next Sunday. Economist Professor Paul Welfens, of Wuppertal University, has estimated that the ‘nonsense’ preventing the rollout of the vaccine ‘will cost around 15,000 lives’. ‘The world is celebrating the BioNTech vaccine developed in Germany. Eurosceptic MEPs have cited the delays as proof that Britain was right to leave the European Union in January. Former Brexit Party MEP Michael Heaver said: ‘Germans waiting for a vaccine that was developed by two German scientists because it hasn’t had EU approval yet.

Source: Daily Mail December 20, 2020 00:00 UTC