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President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has fanned the flames in the UK-EU vaccine feud today as she threatened to block exports to Britain.She said all options are on the table to boost the EU s stuttering immunisation campaign, including moves to halt exports to countries which have higher vaccination rates than us .The EU chief added: We are still waiting for doses to come from the UK, so this is an invitation to show us that there are also doses from the UK coming to the European Union. Open roads run in bot
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The EU s vaccine rollout struggles have also been accompanied by a string of controversies, including this week s blocking of jab exports to Australia by Italy. The move stopped around 250,000 doses of the vaccine from its Anagni plant in Italy from being shipped to Australia. Daniel Gros, director of the Centre for European Policy Studies think tank in Brussels, warned that the EU faces an uphill battle over its vaccine rollout. His comments came as the bloc s rollout of do
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The UK has made good progress with its vaccine rollout, as the country surpassed 20 million people jabbed this week. But this has contrasted greatly to the state of affairs in Europe, where leaders have come under fire for a comparatively slow rollout of the vaccine. The bloc encountered supply problems after signing a deal for 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in December. The rollout in some countries was delayed because of a temporary reduction in deliveries,