The European Union is reportedly “furious with AstraZeneca” over coronavirus vaccine production shortages which could cut initial delivery targets by more than 60 per cent, according to Sky News Reporter Adam Parsons.
AstraZeneca and the EU have a contract where the international organisation signed up to buy hundreds of millions of doses of the vaccine once it had been authorised.
Final approval is currently expected on Friday and the European Union was expecting to receive 80 million doses over the course of the first three months of 2021.
However, AstraZeneca revealed last week that figure would be cut by 60 per cent or more due to production difficulties.
The EU have rejected this explanation and insist the contract they signed says there will be no hierarchy or special treatment and yet the UK supply is expected to continue as planned and uninterrupted over the next few months.
Mr Parsons said “at its heart this is about the European Union thinking that it is being treated as second best by a UK company”.