30 January 2021 • 12:01am
Stella Kyriakides, the EU s health commissioner, who said of AstraZeneca s vaccine supply: We reject the logic of first come, first served. That might work at the neighbourhood butchers but not on our contracts
Credit: Johanna Geron /Reuters
SIR – Reading between the lines, it looks as though the AstraZeneca plant in Belgium is having scale-up problems. Hence its “best efforts” fall well short of the EU’s belated order.
With our astounding success at securing supplies of vaccines, why don’t we offer to divert any excess UK-made supplies to the EU – provided it cuts the unnecessary bureaucracy on our exports?