Coronavirus Update: EU Demands AstraZeneca Meets Its Vaccines Commitments After Supply Warning

Row Comes Ahead Of Expected CHMP Decision

Plus Takeda starts vaccine trial in Japan and South Korea clears Celltrion's antibody therapeutic.   

Stella Kyriakides
Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides: companies manufacturing COVID-19 vaccines in the EU must now give advance notification of exports outside the bloc. • Source: Shutterstock

The European Union has warned that it could curb exports of COVID-19 vaccines manufactured in the bloc, after a row with AstraZeneca over supplies escalated.

AstraZeneca warned at the end of last week that it was falling behind its forecast production levels

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