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AstraZeneca CEO.
Source: Repubblica.
Brussels is trying to requestion UK supplies.
In Short & depends on your interpretation , the EU want the UK to fail, end of.
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Where is that from?
HE117
LE
...the link above! #21339
terminal
LE
More on the riots in the Netherlands.
Dutch streets relatively calm as police out in force following days of anti-lockdown riots
Tuesday night is apparently calm, but around 500 people were detained over the past 3 days.
Monday night apparently saw widespread arson, stone throwing, and looting.
Dutch streets relatively calm as police out in force following days of anti-lockdown riots
Tuesday night is apparently calm, but around 500 people were detained over the past 3 days.
Monday night apparently saw widespread arson, stone throwing, and looting.
terminal
LE
Here's the COVID-19 summary for Tuesday.
Coronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on Tuesday
The UK will be instituting tighter border controls. People arriving from southern Africa, South America, and Portugal will have to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days at their own expense.
Canada have announced plans to tighten border controls further, but there are no details as yet.
As mentioned in a previous post, EU threats to cut off or restrict supplies of vaccine to Canada are causing great concern.
Globally, there have been more than 100 million cases of COVID-19 so far, and more than 2.1 million deaths.
French vaccine company Sanofi will apparently be giving up on their own vaccine and have reached an agreement with Pfizer and Biontech to produce the Biontech vaccine instead. They will produce more than 100 million doses by the end of the year.
Portugal may has other EU countries to send medical staff to help them. Portugal have had the world's highest rate of new cases and deaths for a week now. Hospitals are under strain. They have beds, but they don't have the staff to make use of them.
Taiwan have quarantined 5,000 people in connection with an outbreak at a hospital.
Total cases in Indonesia have topped 1 million, and deaths 28,468. They started vaccinations recently.
Airlines in China are offering to refund tickets as the government tries to limit travel during Lunar New Year. China are currently dealing with a major outbreak in the northern part of the country.
Russia and China are talking to Zimbabwe about supply vaccine to them.
Coronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on Tuesday
The UK will be instituting tighter border controls. People arriving from southern Africa, South America, and Portugal will have to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days at their own expense.
Canada have announced plans to tighten border controls further, but there are no details as yet.
As mentioned in a previous post, EU threats to cut off or restrict supplies of vaccine to Canada are causing great concern.
Globally, there have been more than 100 million cases of COVID-19 so far, and more than 2.1 million deaths.
French vaccine company Sanofi will apparently be giving up on their own vaccine and have reached an agreement with Pfizer and Biontech to produce the Biontech vaccine instead. They will produce more than 100 million doses by the end of the year.
Portugal may has other EU countries to send medical staff to help them. Portugal have had the world's highest rate of new cases and deaths for a week now. Hospitals are under strain. They have beds, but they don't have the staff to make use of them.
Taiwan have quarantined 5,000 people in connection with an outbreak at a hospital.
Total cases in Indonesia have topped 1 million, and deaths 28,468. They started vaccinations recently.
Airlines in China are offering to refund tickets as the government tries to limit travel during Lunar New Year. China are currently dealing with a major outbreak in the northern part of the country.
Russia and China are talking to Zimbabwe about supply vaccine to them.
Exactly the same drills at the vaccination center that I volunteer at.
When we switched from Pfizer to AZ, no waiting time if you had a chauffeur.
The bottleneck was always the 15 minute waiting time.
We have no stock of either vaccine now and are waiting to hear if we are getting stock for the week end (may find out Thursday/Friday).
Since the 15th we have been doing about 300 jabs a day and ran out at 19.00 on the 24th.
This is a rural GP practice, not a super vaccination centre.
This is the little local community hospital. They were doing 650 yesterday, they are not getting stocks every day, most days but not every day.
lastwalt
LE
I suspect that there is also no coincidence that the UK Government were making a big thing about the confidentiality in the details of vaccine supplies just a couple of weeks ago.
CaptainCowpat
Old-Salt
300 million doses ordered. Any bets on if there was lobbying by any nation in particular?
The UK based scientist at a UK University with a UK / Swedish company developed the most scalable / cost effective / logistically simply vaccine at COST for the rest of the world are you surprised that the UK has had first dibs
Anyway I don't know why the Europeans are bleating they have not approved it for use yet
I expect the Astra Zeneca batches the UK are using at the moment have been manufactured in the UK - no good sending those batches to Europe they would be stuck in EU Customs for a couple of months to spite the UK for Brexit
Archie
From CNN ( other news outlets are widely available)Oh I think what the EU is doing and saying (and its reasons) are legitimate subjects in this thread. If we can just stick to the facts we can hopefully get through unscathed
Leaders of the 27-nation bloc are visibly furious with AstraZeneca, saying the vaccine maker is failing to meet contractual obligations to deliver hundreds of millions of doses by spring – while appearing to have no trouble fulfilling orders for other customers. The company blames “reduced yields at a manufacturing site within our European supply chain.”
But the EU is counting on AstraZeneca. It has already ordered 300 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine with an option to purchase an additional 100 million – which all together would be enough to immunize nearly half the bloc’s population.
The dispute got ugly fast. On Monday, EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides implicitly threatened to slap export controls on vaccine doses, tweeting: “In the future, all companies producing vaccines against Covid-19 in the EU will have to provide early notification whenever they want to export vaccines to third countries.”
That raised alarm bells in London, where there was immediate concern that the UK and EU – just finished with their high-stakes Brexit divorce – might compete for vaccine doses. The United Kingdom hit a terrible milestone on Tuesday, becoming the fifth (and smallest) country to suffer 100,000 coronavirus deaths. But it still boasts a relatively robust vaccination program, with about about 10% of its people already immunized, compared with big European countries: Spain, Italy and Germany have vaccinated just over 2% of their populations. Poland is at 2%, while France is at 1.6%.
French and German leaders have urged their nations to be patient, but across the continent, citizens must be wondering if the 27-nation group – so often criticized for its rules and bureaucracy -- is simply too slow to handle the crisis. After all, the AstraZeneca vaccine that EU leaders are demanding is not yet even approved for use in the bloc
Terminal reported the German Press is happily recycling Internet rumours about the efficacy of the Oxford/ Astra-Zeneca .
Germany fears EU will not approve AstraZeneca vaccine for seniors, Bild says
FRANKFURT — AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine is not very effective for people over 65, German coalition sources told newspapers Bild and Handelsblatt, a step…
Why ? What possible motive could Germany have for dissing the Astra-Zeneca solution ?
Well, the alternative is the German-manufactured Moderna/BionTech vaccine - so one motive could possibly be.......EUROS ?
Cynical ? moi ? heaven forfend.......
lastwalt
LE
Not at all, no. How you got that from from my post, I have no idea.
Correct, and someone inside the German Government is sending signals to discredit it, for whatever reason.
And now we're getting to the point of my post. You expect that the AZ batches that the UK are using have been manufactured in the UK, but nobody knows for sure. What we do know is that the UK Government have energetically suppressed discussion about where they actually were manufactured. It's therefore no surprise that the Europeans suspect that supplies that they expected to get have in fact been diverted to the UK.
beemer007
MIA
Apparently, aiming for lifting lockdown on 8 March with a review 22 Feb date.
England's schools will not reopen before March
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England's schools will not reopen before March
Covid-19: England's schools will not reopen before March
Schools could reopen from 8 March if the UK meets vaccination targets, the prime minister says.
www.bbc.co.uk
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terminal
LE
A number of other countries placed bets on multiple vaccines and ordered far more than they needed from different suppliers in case some didn't work out. The EU didn't do this. When the Sanofi vaccine looked good in preliminary trials but failed during large scale trials, they were left with a shortage.
