The European Union will urge the US to export millions of doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine to Europe, it has been reported.
According to reports in the Financial Times, the EU is scrambling to manage supply shortfalls of Covid-19 vaccines. The European Commission told the newspaper: “We trust that we can work together with the U.S. to ensure that vaccines produced or bottled in the US for the fulfilment of vaccine producers’ contractual obligations with the EU will be fully honoured.”
It comes as Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of the Government’s SPI-M modelling advisory panel, told Times Radio that children going back to classrooms on March 8 would cause a rise in the reproductive number – or R value – of the virus while more vaccinations would cause it to reduce.
He said: “We do need to get this balancing act correct and we need to open up at the rate of vaccinations and keep the R number in check, as it were.”
