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AstraZeneca will reduce by 60% the deliveries of the anti-Covid vaccine promised to the European Union in the first part of this year, Reuters reports, cited by Sky News.
AstraZeneca had committed to shipping around 80 million doses to the 27 countries of the European Union by the end of March, according to a European official quoted by the agency. However, 31 million of them will not reach the continent due to production problems at the Belgian factory that produces the serum.
“The quantity produced will be less than anticipated due to decreased production at our factory in the European supply chain,” a company spokesman said in a statement.
The European Commission has confirmed that it has received information from AstraZeneca.
The bad news comes in the context that the vaccination campaign at the European Union level is already affected at this time by a reduction in the number of doses of Pfizer / BioNTech vaccines administered.
Publisher: Adrian Dumitru
