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The Italian prime minister has urged the EU to suffocate vaccine makers who fail to deliver on their contractual obligations amid a row over supplies from AstraZeneca. Italy imposed the first EU-sanctioned export ban on vaccines yesterday when it blocked 250,000 AstraZeneca jabs from heading to Australia - which was due to start inoculations with the vaccine today. The export control mechanism was hastily pushed through by the EU in January after the bloc bitterly accused AstraZeneca of holding back doses meant for the EU and diverting them to newly-unshackled Brexit Britain.   Italy s new prime minister Mario Draghi told Ursula von der Leyen over the phone on Wednesday that it was necessary to suffocate the pharmaceutical giants to force them to meet their contractual obligations, according to Italian daily La Republicca. 

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