AstraZeneca vaccine row worsens as EU says it has legal right to jabs from drugmaker’s two UK plants

The EU slammed

The EU slammed Covid-19 vaccine manufacturer AstraZeneca on Wednesday for allegedly failing to provide the bloc with its agreed number of jabs. It demanded the company give it some of the doses that have been produced in the UK.

EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said the bloc had signed an “advance purchase agreement” with AstraZeneca, meaning the company’s plans to slash vaccine deliveries to the bloc is “against the letter and the spirit” of the agreement.

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