Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte warned officials against jumping the vaccine queue, saying the nation risks losing donated doses from the World Health Organization-backed COVAX Facility if health workers aren’t prioritized.US Secretary of State Antony Blinken used his first official European engagement on Tuesday to talk up America’s renewed embrace of the transatlantic alliance, a day after Western nations engaged in a fiery, coordinated exchange of sanctions with China.
“There will be no change in the EU’s determination to defend human rights and to respond to serious violations and abuses, irrespective of where they are committed,” he said. David Sassoli, president of the European Parliament, said that Beijing’s embargoes on five members of the parliament as well as on its human rights subcommittee “will have consequences”.
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