AstraZeneca warns EU countries it will cut deliveries of Covid-19 vaccine by 60% in first quarter dailymail.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailymail.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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The European Commission said it was trying to obtain more information.
This comes on top of a halt to vaccinations in some parts of Europe due to a cut in deliveries of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
AstraZeneca, which developed its vaccine with Oxford University, disclosed the situation in a statement, but gave few details. Initial volumes will be lower than originally anticipated due to reduced yields at a manufacturing site within our European supply chain, it said.
Reuters news agency quotes an unnamed EU official as saying that the company had told the EU that the supply would reduce to 31 million - a cut of 60 percent - the number of doses it could deliver to the bloc in the first quarter of this year.
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Fatima Negrini, who is 108-years-old, receives the Covid-19 vaccine jab on Monday at the Anni Azzurri San Faustino care home in Milan. AFP
Italian centenerian oldest to receive jab
Tue, 19 January 2021
An Italian centenarian has become one of the oldest people in the world to get a Covid-19 vaccine, months after she survived a coronavirus infection, her retirement home said.
Fatima Negrini, who is due to turn 109 on June 3, received the jab on January 18 along with other residents of the Anni Azzurri San Faustino care home in Milan, said a spokesman.
“The arrival of the vaccine for her and all guests and staff . . . represents a moment of great happiness and a first step towards a return to peaceful everyday life inside the facility,” said Matteo Tessarollo.
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