AstraZeneca expects to deliver less than half target In a story the pharmaceutical company has not denied, Reuters reports that AstraZeneca has told the European Union during internal meetings that it “would deliver less than 90 million doses” of its covid-19 vaccine in the second quarter of this year. That is less than half the Covid-19 vaccines it was contracted to supply and follows a shortfall in the first quarter. A later statement from AstraZeneca said it was attempting to increase productivity in an effort to fulfil the contract. An EU official told Reuters the bloc should still have enough doses to hit its vaccination target of 70% of the population by summer if other suppliers meet their supply promises.