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WRAPUP 2-EU warns it could block vaccine exports, wields legal threat at drugmakers Reuters 1/28/2021 UK says it wants the vaccines it has ordered EU s Michel says EU should consider legal means EU could block vaccine exports Germany recommends AstraZeneca COVID-19 shot only for under 65s French vaccination centres cancel appointments (Adds Portugal, Spain, Netherlands vaccination delays)
By John Chalmers and Philip Blenkinsop
BRUSSELS, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Europe s fight to secure COVID-19 vaccine supplies intensified on Thursday when the European Union warned drug companies such as AstraZeneca that it would use all legal means or even block exports unless they agreed to deliver shots as promised.
UPDATE 6-EU warns it could block vaccine exports, wields legal threat at drugmakers Reuters 1/28/2021 UK says it wants the vaccines it has ordered EU s Michel says EU should consider legal means EU set to require authorisation for vaccine exports French vaccination centres cancel appointments AstraZeneca CEO: EU was late to do a deal (Recasts headline and lead with Reuters exclusive)
By John Chalmers and Philip Blenkinsop
BRUSSELS, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Europe s fight to secure COVID-19 vaccine supplies intensified on Thursday when the European Union warned drug companies such as AstraZeneca that it would use all legal means or even block exports unless they agreed to deliver shots as promised.
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WHO warns too early to ease up from Covid-19
lockdowns in Europe
GENEVA – The World Health Organisation s European
director Hans Kluge said on Thursday that Covid-19 transmission rates in Europe
remained too high, putting health services under severe strain, and therefore
it was too early to ease up . We need to be patient, it will take time to
vaccinate, he told an online briefing. We have learned harsh
lessons – opening and closing, and reopening (societies) rapidly is a poor
strategy in seeking to curb coronavirus contagion, he said.
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