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Reuters exclusively reports Astra offers small concession, EU pleads for UK-made shots amid vaccine row

Reuters exclusively reported that AstraZeneca has offered to bring forward some deliveries of its COVID-19 vaccine to the European Union, while the bloc has asked the British drugmaker if it can divert doses from the UK to make up for a shortfall in supplies. Reuters revealed on Friday that AstraZeneca would cut supplies to the EU of its vaccine candidate in the first quarter of this year, a move that a senior EU official told Reuters meant a 60% reduction to 31 million doses for the bloc. That complicated the EU’s vaccination plans, after Pfizer had also announced a temporary slowdown in deliveries of its vaccine, and triggered an outcry in Brussels and EU capitals.

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FILE PHOTO: Boxes of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine are pictured in a refrigerator at a NHS mass coronavirus vaccination centre at Robertson House in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, Britain January 11, 2021. Joe Giddens/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
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