The coronavirus epidemic has made Donald Trump a figure in another major scandal.
This is reported by the German publication “Welt am Sonntag”.
As it turned out, the head of the White House expected to get the exclusive rights to the vaccine against coronavirus infection COVID-19, developed by a group of scientists in Germany. According to Trump’s idea, CureVac specialists were to produce the drug exclusively for the United States.
In this regard, Donald Trump offered the experts an impressive amount of money. A source of the publication in the German government noted that Washington put forward one condition: “Only for the United States”.
“We are trying to create a medicine for the whole world, but not for individual countries”, – commented on the situation the sponsor of the program to develop the vaccine famous German businessman Dietmar Hopp.
In the end, Trump failed to achieve his goal, but provoked an “indirect but obvious dispute” between the United States and Germany, the publication writes. The CureVac company itself refused to comment on the incident.
CureVac is currently working on several experimental vaccines against coronavirus infection. According to the company’s plans, they can be tested on humans by the summer.
Earlier News Front reported that on Monday Germany closed its borders with Austria, France and Switzerland. Berlin took this step to prevent the spread of the epidemic and prevent foreigners from buying food in Germany, which has already led to food shortages in the border regions of the country.