European Commission embarrassed by COVID-19 vaccine price leak
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File photo of a COVID-19 vaccine. (AFP/JOEL SAGET)
18 Dec 2020 11:14PM
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18 Dec 2020 11:20PM)
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BRUSSELS: The European Commission refused to comment directly on Friday (Dec 18) on a leak of how much it would pay for COVID-19 vaccine doses, stressing confidentiality clauses with the companies involved.
Spokesmen for the EU executive were questioned about the information revealed on Thursday in a tweet by a junior minister in Belgium's government that gave a cost breakdown of six vaccines in the Commission's portfolio.
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"We cannot say anything about this," one of the spokesmen, Stefan de Keersmaecker, told journalists, without denying the tweet's accuracy.