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The EU has been embroiled in a row with the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company after it last week revealed it would cut deliveries in the first quarter due to production issues at a Belgian factory. Speaking on Friday, European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen said the European Union's contract with AstraZeneca contains binding orders. AstraZeneca’s chief executive, Pascal Soirot, has said the UK has first claim on doses of the vaccine produced in Oxford and Staffordshire in the UK. Von der Leyen dismissed this claim and stated the contract is "crystal clear" and AstraZeneca is bou...

Stella Kyriakides, the EU’s health commissioner, has said the bloc is not protecting itself ‘against any specific country’. Photograph: Thierry Monasse/Getty Images The UK has been left off a list of more than 120 countries exempted from tighter export restrictions on vaccines produced in the EU, in the latest twist in the bloc’s row with AstraZeneca over a shortage of doses. Stella Kyriakides, the EU’s health commissioner, said the bloc was not protecting itself “against any specific country” but that it needed to ensure con...

Share The Guardian promptly rose to the bait, using Wilson's remarks to justify the headline 'UK plan to shun vaccine scheme 'unforgivable', say critics'. Then, in the sewer of grievance that is social media, a host of highly influential 'Remainiacs' decided it was actually part of a sinister plan by Mr Johnson to murder his own citizens by failing to inoculate them. David Schneider, the Left-wing comedian, to this end told his 500,000 followers we were witnessing 'this week's episode of Who Cares if You Die as Long as we Brexit', adding that it showed Brexit to be a 'death cult'.

European markets are expected to struggle to find higher ground today, as fears over vaccine supplies and longer lockdowns prompts fears it could take longer for the world to recover from the pandemic.

U.S. suffers another 4,000 COVID deaths in a single day as Fauci warns about new strains MarketWatch 1/28/2021 CORONAVIRUS UPDATE The global case tally for the coronavirus-borne illness COVID-19 climbed above 100.9 million on Thursday and the U.S. death toll headed toward 430,000, after another 4,000 lives were lost in a 24-hour period for a second straight day. Popular Searches The death toll remains high, even as case numbers and hospitalizations are declining, although experts are concerned that new, more infectious variants of the virus may cause those numbers to reverse. Dr. Anthony Fa...