COVID-19: Council approves additional funding from the EU budget
The Council today approved additional funding from the EU budget, amounting to €121.5 million, to address urgent needs related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
These funds will support the following actions:
preparatory work for digital green certificates to facilitate free movement during the COVID-19 pandemic
strengthening the capacity of member states to detect and monitor new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (‘sequencing’)
the development, evaluation and adjustment of new reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assays for each new emerging variant of the COVID-19 virus before the tests are rolled out, while ensuring sufficient testing capacity in the member states
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The Council today approved additional funding from the EU budget, amounting to €121.5 million, to address urgent needs related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
These funds will support the following actions:
preparatory work for digital green certificates to facilitate free movement during the COVID-19 pandemic
strengthening the capacity of member states to detect and monitor new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (‘sequencing’)
the development, evaluation and adjustment of new reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assays for each new emerging variant of the COVID-19 virus before the tests are rolled out, while ensuring sufficient testing capacity in the member states