Reiner Haseloff, the leader of Saxony-Anhalt, said he would 'take Sputnik V any time', having had a Soviet-made polio shot as a child in East Germany - adding that he was open to making vaccines compulsory like they were in the Communist-ruled state. It came amid calls to use the Sputnik V to speed up a vaccine drive hampered by EU supply chaos and public doubts over the AstraZeneca shot, with one state premier saying the country should do 'everything possible' to quicken the pace. German regulators submitted their revised verdict on AstraZeneca's vaccine on Thursday - a move which Angela Merkel's health minister Jens Spahn had pleaded for the day prior. we all depend on one another,' Breton said. 'No single country can have an autonomous vaccination strategy. The commissioner called for EU unity, after several members of the bloc, including Slovakia, Hungary, Denmark and Austria, broke ranks to source vaccines from Israel, China or Russia.
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The 53.8 million doses are enough to provide two doses to every person in the country, which has a population of around 25 million.īreton was in Italy on Thursday, when he boasted that Europe has 'plenty of vaccines available' and will be able to offer one to every adult before the end of summer.īreton claimed that EU countries have received 43 million doses so far, but have not yet used about 30 per cent of them.Īccording to the commissioner, by the end of the year the EU will be able to manufacture 2-3 billion vaccine doses per year, beating the production capacity of the US, China and Russia. The doses will be manufactured in monthly batches. Mr Morrison said that a further 50 million doses of the AstraZeneca jab will be made domestically in Melbourne to avoid relying on other countries and supply problems. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said 300,000 doses of the AstraZeneca jab arrived in Sydney on Sunday and were to be administered to front-line medics in the south of the country from Friday.Īnother 3.8 million doses of the AstraZeneca jab are to be shipped in from overseas. Just 0.2 per 100 people have received a vaccine dose, compared to 31.82 in Britain, 24.33 in the U.S. The country received a delivery of 142,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine on February 15, but the AstraZeneca jab is to be the predominant vaccine for Australians. The move came amid an almighty row between Brussels and AstraZeneca after the company said an initial delivery of vaccines to the EU would fall short - hampering the continent's already-slow roll-out.Įuropean leaders were quick to accuse the British-Swedish company of shipping doses made on the continent to the UK, saying it amounted to unfair treatment.Īustralia began its vaccine campaign last week and had intended to use jabs shipped from abroad in the early part of the roll-out, before switching to domestically-produced ones.Īustralia has only just begun to roll-out Covid-19 jabs, with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine approved for use from Friday. The 250,000 doses will reportedly now be distributed within the EU, whose member states are lagging behind other developed nations, including the United Kingdom. Officials in Rome had informed the EU of its intention to act last week and Brussels did not object to the move.Įuropean leaders hastily passed new laws in January which require vaccine-makers to get permission from member states if they are planning to ship jabs manufactured in their countries overseas. The EU has blocked a shipment of AstraZeneca vaccines from leaving Italy for Australia using controversial export laws for the first time.Īuthorities in Italy refused to grant a licence for 250,000 doses manufactured in the country to be exported, meaning the shipment could not leave Thursday as planned.