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The company has promised to deliver 9 million. additional doses and “start delivery a week earlier than planned,” the EC chief wrote on Twitter.
In an interview with the German broadcaster ZDF, Mr. von der Leyen pointed out that the figure was 30%. higher than the default in the order above.
The portal tv3.lt recalls that in the event of tensions over the supply of the AstraZeneca vaccine against the coronavirus, the German government threatened this Sunday with lawsuits against laboratories that do not follow the delivery schedules for coronavirus vaccines to the European Union ).
“If it turns out that the companies have not fulfilled their obligations, we will have to decide on the legal consequences,” Economy Minister Peter Altmajer told Die Welt.
AstraZeneca, European leader and British and Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, has faced mounting tensions in recent weeks as the company announces smaller-than-expected deliveries of its coronavirus vaccine in Europe.
On Friday, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) approved the use of a coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca to vaccinate adult EU citizens. This is the third COVID-19 vaccine approved in the EU, with vaccines developed by Moderna and BioNTech in collaboration with Pfizer.
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