A strict coronavirus lockdown thats making the countrys economic crisis even worse. Plus they were driven to local extinction 70 years ago but now theyre back. On a conservation projects have been jacked to the Natural Habitats in argentina. As welcome to the program the president of the European Commission for the lion has urged Pharma Company astra zeneca to stick by its commitments to supply the e. U. With its covert 19 vaccine comments come after the british swedish firm said it was cutting the number of doses for the e. U. By 60 percent because of production problems the drug maker also said it was not contractually obliged to deliver. On the line however disputes this saying the contract is quote Crystal Clear the dispute comes as the e. U. Faces pressure over its procurement policies and many countries face problems rolling out that vaccination drives. But the correspondent. Is in brussels for us is this dispute with us for a senator that we hearing so much about is it really wh
Country amid a new wave of corona virus infections that are so far less than one percent of the population has received the vaccine Monica Yannick have has will from just narrow on the one side hes saying that hes going to vaccinate brazilians for asked on the other side hes and hes changed his tune with china as well he has been attacked china and try not is working with brazil to produce the corona vaccine here and as well as supplying the material for as presented to produce vaccines in brazil and the president had been tackling china all this time this is change because time was running out brazil was a really lagging behind its neighbors to start inoculation. Experts from the World Health Organization have met chinese scientists and will they continue their investigation into the origins of covert 19 said research is with visit hospitals labs and the food markets that have been linked to the earliest cases of the virus protests in lebanon have been growing as anger rises at lockdo
Thats a lame excuse they say there is a clear commitment and that is why they hope the company will publish the this particular contract today for everyone to see that the promises that have been made to the e. U. Are unfulfilled so that the e. U. Not know that the u. K. Would have priority and is was the lack of Due Diligence on the on the use part or should i have told them. There from from the perspective of the e. U. There is a lack of information though the key issue for them is that if you cut the vaccine supply that was promised by contract by more than half by 60 percent you need to come up with some some really good reasons for that and those reasons have been given apparently there is a problem in the supply chain on the european side in effect 3 in belgium but from the perspective of the e. U. Arsenic as a club a company theyre producing as far away as india and if they have supply problems that bug needs to be shared by all the countries that they are at handing out their v
See the European Union has spent hundreds of millions of euros in advance even before approval from the European Medicines Agency so that a vaccine can be produced so the moment it is approved it is there to be vaccinators so but thats also part of the problem astras is supplying vaccine to the United Kingdom isnt it. Exactly and the argument of the European Commission is that stress anika is a close call company that is producing not only in the e. U. But also in the u. K. Also in india and that supply chain problems must then affect all those countries that are buying vaccines and europe is the biggest customer and it cant be that its just europe that is carrying the burden just because the supply chain problem appears to be in a belgian factory but both are strong and the e. U. Have said its states in the contract that they respectively were right and now the redacted version of the contract that you have in front of you still doesnt shed any light on the core issues here why do you
Has just introduced a control mechanism for companies producing vaccines tell us a little bit more about that if you want its a bit of a warning shot for other companies and pfizer of biotech is also a company that has suddenly confronted the u. S. Supply a problem so what the use is has introduced is a mechanism whereby companies a you can track now to what extent companies are exporting vaccines that are being produced inside the e. U. The u. S. Made clear today this is only an insurance policy they do not want to get involved into any sort of vaccine protectionism or to export bounce but it is clear that they are flexing their muscles to show those tech or from a suitable dions that they do mean business here. Georg not as in brussels for us thank you so much. The astra zeneca vaccine is one of 3 being used as part of britains vaccination drive the country has one of the highest death tolls in the world but as we have heard it is also making more progress than many other countries e