The Anglo-Swedish jab producer has been accused by La Stampa of hiding 29 million doses in the Catalent plant in Anagni, in the Lazio region, after Italian authorities tipped by the Commission inspected the facility. According to sources of the Italian daily,
Ursula von der Leyen will tomorrow unveil tweaked powers to keep hold of millions of life-saving Covid vaccines produced at an AstraZeneca plant in the Netherlands. The European Commission President will use her draconian export ban to demand the lion’s share of
A new Covid variant spotted in Britain is not a threat because it does not appear to carry any vaccine-resistant mutations, an infectious diseases expert has said. Samples of the New York B.1.526 variant taken from infected US patients were found to
European leaders were divided last night over whether to press ahead with an extraordinary ban on vaccine exports to Britain. Brussels sources confirmed that the EU is ready to block a shipment of the AstraZeneca vaccine to the UK from a plant
ITALIAN Prime Minister Mario Draghi is believed to be in talks with Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron in a bid to take over from Ursula von der Leyen on the management of the vaccine rollout across the EU.
The European Commission is considering banning vaccine exports to the UK in a bid to force Brexit Britain to share its doses of AstraZeneca. But the move could backfire and cause more problems in the bloc than in the UK, according to
Tensions were on the tip of boiling over last night with the EU making a series of fresh threats to the UK’s vaccination programme. Britain is calling on AstraZeneca jabs produced at a factory in the Netherlands to be shipped to the
Vaccine row: Whately addresses prospect of UK retaliation With the UK and EU on the brink of a vaccine war, the Prime Minister is expected to speak to his counterparts on the continent and threaten retaliatory action if a ban on jabs
The Social Care minister was asked on two occasions whether the UK would consider plans to retaliate if vaccine doses were to be stopped from travelling to the UK. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned on Sunday AstraZeneca could face
More than half of all adults have had at least one shot (Image: Getty) But Britain’s rollout achievement saw 844,285 people receive doses – at a rate of 27 jabs every second. The record-breaking total, which followed more than 700,000 vaccinations just