Coronavirus: EU locks horns with AstraZeneca over supplies

25-1-2021 Cyprus Mail CyprusMail Warmer

Coronavirus: EU locks horns with AstraZeneca...

AstraZeneca is not doing enough to try to resolve a dispute over delayed Covid-19 vaccine deliveries to the European Union, the bloc’s top health official said on Monday, as news emerged the drugmaker is also facing supply problems elsewhere.

In a sign of the EU’s frustration – after Pfizer also announced a temporary slowdown in vaccine supplies earlier in January – EU health commissioner Stella Kyriakides proposed forcing drugmakers to register in advance their Covid-19 vaccine exports, so the bloc can keep track of what they are doing.

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Coronavirus: EU locks horns with AstraZeneca over supplies

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