Prognosis
EU Takes AstraZeneca to Court Over Vaccine Delivery Delays
- European Commission launches legal action against drugmaker
- Astra has repeatedly cut its delivery schedule to the EU
Photographer: Alex Kraus/Bloomberg
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The European Union filed a lawsuit against AstraZeneca Plc, raising the stakes in the spat between the drugmaker and the bloc’s 27 governments over vaccine deliveries.
The company failed to come up with a “reliable strategy” to ensure timely delivery of vaccine doses, European Commission spokesman Stefan De Keersmaecker told reporters in Brussels. “We want to make sure that there’s a speedy delivery of a sufficient number of doses the European citizens are entitled to and which have been promised on the basis of this contract.”