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Bianca Rahimi
Press TV, London
  Italy, disgruntled by the delay of vaccine supplies to Rome, and general vaccine shortages in the EU has called for the shipment to Australia to be blocked. By doing so, it is activating for the first time, an export control system instituted by the bloc to make sure companies like the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca, honor their contracts.

Australia says its vaccine rollout will not be affected by the ban.

Out of 450 million Europeans, only 11 million have had a Covid-19 jab.

Tired of waiting, countries like Denmark, Austria, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic have given up on Brussels and turned to other suppliers.

This week Hungary received its first shipment of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, as another surge of the virus races across the country.

The EU is only using Western approved vaccines at the moment.

Europe's drug regulator has launched a review of Russia's Sputnik V, which has an efficacy of 91.6 percent, insisting geopolitics is not affecting decision-making.

Russia says it is ready to provide jabs for 50 million Europeans the moment it gets the green light.

Vaccine rollouts will only work if they happen fast and evenly across continents, outsmarting mutations.

Amid a surge of cases across the whole of Europe, the EU has launched a continent-wide project to strip out supply bottlenecks and boost production, hoping to redeem itself and stave off a third wave

Original Article Source: Press TV | Published on Saturday, 06 March 2021 16:19 (about 1118 days ago)