EU Offering U.K. Just a Fraction of Astra’s Dutch Vaccine Output
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The European Union is only prepared to let the U.K. take a small portion of AstraZeneca Plc’s output from the Netherlands as it battles to get its immunization program back on track.
As the two sides negotiate over how to divide up the limited supply of shots from a new Astra facility due to come on stream in the next few weeks, the EU is insisting that it should get the lion’s share because it has a far bigger population and because its vaccination program is running some way behind the U.K., according to two EU officials.