AstraZeneca’s reduced vaccine supply not acceptable: Commissioner

Brussels, Jan 26 : Stella Kyriakides, the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, stated on Monday that AstraZeneca’s new schedule in which the company’s supply of Covid-19 vaccine would fall short of expectation was unacceptable to the European Union (EU). “Last Friday, the company AstraZeneca surprisingly informed the Commission and the European Union Member States that it intends to supply considerably fewer doses in the coming weeks than agreed and announced,” she said in a video statement. “This new schedule is not...