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Subject: Letter to EU Health Ministers concerning the epidemiological situation across the EU
Your Excellencies,
Please find attached letter from Ms Stella Kyriakides, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety and Mr Janez Poklukar, Minister of Health of the Republic of Slovenia, concerning the epidemiological situation across the EU.
Kind Regards,
Christian Cassar
Assistant
European Commission
Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
Health and Food Safety
Rue de la Loi 200, BERL 10/390
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
Telephone: +32 2 29 88690
Email:
[email protected] <mailto:
[email protected]>
Ljubljana/Brussels, 29 July 2021
Dear Minister,
We take this opportunity to thank you for support throughout the pandemic and the close
collaboration.
We would like to draw your attention to the rapidly deteriorating epidemiological situation
across the EU. The notification rate in the EU is now at 151 per 100 000 population.
As you know, this week the Delta variant is now the dominant variant in the EU.
While the stringent measures introduced earlier this year and the rapid rate of vaccination have
led to a decrease of the mortality rate, we now see a substantial increase in the number of new
infections. The experience in other countries indicates that we may eventually see an increase
in the hospitalisation rate primarily among those unvaccinated.
In this context, we would like to stress the importance of maximising the number of fully
vaccinated individuals among the most vulnerable and priority groups. It is imperative that we
aim at the highest possible vaccination rate, especially for those most at risk as well as those
caring for them – in particular healthcare workers and carers in long-term care facilities. To
this end, we fully support targeted single or joint actions by Member States to enhance
vaccination throughout EU.
In addition, the growing number of infections also brings the risk of long-COVID and other
chronic health issues. While still not fully understood, these conditions will have massive
health and social consequences among our citizens as well as put further pressure on healthcare
systems.
Finally, as we have discussed in the past, vaccination is a key pillar of our strategy to contain
and overcome the pandemic. We urge all Member States to maintain already envisaged key
non-pharmaceutical measures as vaccination continues. This is crucial if we are to slow the
appearance of new variants.
EU Health Ministers
In this context, we all want to make sure that we move towards the reopening of our economies
and societies in the weeks ahead safely and in a coordinated way. We have implemented a
strong and common European tool to ensure that free movement can safely continue for our
citizens, the EU Digital COVID-Certificate. It is now crucial that it is used when required to
ensure that travel can take place as safely as possible, while maintaining non-pharmaceutical
interventions.
In view of this situation, the Presidency of the Council of the EU will continue to ensure that
relevant information, including regular updates by the European Centre for Disease Prevention
and Control (ECDC) and the European Commission, will be promptly provided through the
IPCR network including its Round Table on COVID-19 prepared to be convened if necessary.
In parallel, the European Commission will continue to convene the EU scientific advice
platform on COVID-19 and the newly established European group of experts on SARS-CoV-
2 variants over the month of August. The Health Security Committee will also continue its
weekly meetings. We would also urge you to work closely with the ECDC to keep sharing
relevant data and to introduce the most effective measures based on your specific
epidemiological situation.
We count on your support in the upcoming negotiations with the Parliament on the European
Health Union. At the same time, we look forward to starting the discussion on the Health
Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA).
We would like to thank you for your continued cooperation and collaboration. It is important
that we work closely together in the coming weeks and months to overcome the pandemic.
Yours faithfully,
Janez Poklukar Stella Kyriakides
Minister of Health Member of the European Commission
Republic of Slovenia Health and Food Safety
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