Vaccination against COVID-19 in Halle/Saale, Germany. (Photo: AFP/VNA)

Speaking at a discussion on international health policy, Minister Maas said that "vaccine diplomacy" is aimed first at the interests of countries that have vaccines, rather than those with an urgent need for vaccines. He emphasized that vaccine nationalism is not the right way and only vaccine supply on the global scale can defeat COVID-19.

Meanwhile, the director of the German Institute for Medical Mission (Difäm) in Tübingen, Gisela Schneider, said that what needs to be done now is to create resilient health systems, for example in underdeveloped countries or poor countries.