
EU sues AstraZeneca after delays in vaccine deliveries
CNN
The European Union said Monday it had launched legal action against the British-Swedish drug company AstraZeneca after it repeatedly under-delivered on its shipments of Covid-19 vaccines to the bloc.
The 27 nations in the European Union have rolled out a relatively sluggish vaccination program as the company's deliveries to the union have fallen tens of millions of doses short of delivery targets agreed in its contract with the EU several times. The EU had ordered 300 million initial doses of the vaccine from the company, with an optional extra 100 million.
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