AstraZeneca reaches COVID-19 vaccine shipping milestone as EU sues again

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AstraZeneca has delivered 50 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine to European Union countries, according to EU supply data, a milestone the ...

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BRUSSEL: AstraZeneca has delivered 50 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine to European Union countries, according to EU supply data, a milestone the company had originally been expected to hit in January.

On Tuesday, it will launch a new case on the merits of the issue, which an official familiar with the proceedings said was mostly procedural but would allow the EU to seek potential financial penalties. In mid-March, the company had pledged to deliver 50.2 million doses to the EU by the end of April, an AstraZeneca document seen by Reuters showed.But AstraZeneca had shipped only 47.6 million doses by Apr 30, a spokesman for the company said, adding that other doses were sent over the first weekend of May and in the following days,"following requests to not ship to a few countries that had public holidays during this period".

Under its contract with the EU, the company had committed to its"best reasonable efforts" to deliver 300 million doses by the end of June, of which 70 million were supposed to be delivered by the end of January.

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