Australia asks European Commission to review Italy’s vaccine block

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CANBERRA, March 5: Australia has asked the European Commission to review a decision by Italy to block a shipment of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine, wh...

FILE PHOTO: A test tube labelled “vaccine” in front of an AstraZeneca logo in this illustration taken, September 9, 2020. - ReutersAustralia has asked the European Commission to review a decision by Italy to block a shipment of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine, while stressing on Friday the missing doses would not affect the rollout of Australia’s inoculation programme.

Hunt said Australia had already received 300,000 doses of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine, which would last until local production of the vaccine ramps up. “The world is in quite uncharted territory at present, and it is unsurprising that some countries will tear up the rule book when they are in uncharted territory,“ Australian Finance Minister Simon Birmingham told Sky News.

EU countries started inoculations at the end of December, but are moving at a far slower pace than many other nations, with officials blaming the slow progress in part on supply problems with key manufacturers.Australia has ordered 53.8 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which was developed in conjunction with the University of Oxford.

 

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