EU vaccine rollout back in the spotlight after Italy blocks shipment bound for Australia

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Europe's coronavirus vaccine rollout has been thrust into the spotlight again after Italy blocked a shipment of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines to Australia.

Europe's vaccine rollout "will be an uphill battle," Daniel Gros, director of the Centre for European Policy Studies think tank in Brussels, Belgium, told CNBC on Friday.

Prepared syringes at the Brussels Expo Covid-19 Vaccination Center in Brussels, Belgium, on Friday, March 5, 2021.vaccine rollout has been thrust into the spotlight once again after the Italian government blocked a shipment of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines to Australia. if needs be. The move stopped around 250,000 doses of the vaccine from its Anagni, Italy, plant being shipped to Australia.

The EU and AstraZeneca have been at odds since the drugmaker was unable to deliver as many shots as the bloc was expecting for the first quarter. There have also been doubts about how many shots the firm will manage to deliver in the second quarter.'s CEO Pascal Soriot said late last month that the vaccine shortfall was due to yield issues and that his firm was working around the clock to increase production.

 

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