A dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine Image: Yui Mok via PA Images A dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine Image: Yui Mok via PA Images THE EUROPEAN UNION has reached an agreement with drugmaker AstraZeneca to end a legal battle over the slow delivery of the Anglo-Swedish company’s coronavirus vaccine.
Brussels said the deliveries would respect an advance purchasing agreement the EU reached with AstraZeneca a year ago. But the company said the ruling showed that “AstraZeneca has fully complied with its agreement” with the European Commission. The executive vice president of AstraZeneca’s BioPharmaceuticals Business Unit, Ruud Dobber, said in a statement that he was “very pleased that we have been able to reach a common understanding which allows us to move forward and work in collaboration with the European Commission to help overcome the pandemic”.
#Open journalism No news is bad news Support The Journal Your contributions will help us continue to deliver the stories that are important to youAstraZeneca said that, along with its partners, it has supplied more than 1.1 billion doses of the vaccine to over 170 countries, and that approximately two-thirds have gone to low and lower-middle-income countries.
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