Prognosis
U.K. and EU Try to Ease Travel Fears Over India’s Astra Vaccine
- Some Britons received a version of Astra shot unapproved in EU
- EU says member states can accept any WHO-approved vaccine
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U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson tried to calm concerns among vaccinated Britons that they won’t be able to travel to the European Union this summer because they received a version of AstraZeneca Plc’s Covid-19 shot that was made in India.
The vaccine -- known as Covishield -- isn’t approved by the European Medicines Agency. That has led to some uncertainty about whether recipients will be eligible to travel to the bloc. But the shot is authorized by the World Health Organization, and the European Commission said individual member states can accept those if they want.