EU has triggered article 16 over controls on vaccine exports

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Breaking news on sky
news.sky.com/story/covid-19-eu-introduces-controls-on-vaccine-exports-to-northern-ireland-12202656

Good news on jab safety: www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55946912.
Interesting that the "majority" of 7m jabs to 24th Jan were Pfizer, that suggests the 4m Oxford-Astrazeneca doses didn't come from Belgium, perhaps just the 530k that were "ready to go" on 2nd Jan.
(You aren't seeing double if you read the data thread and the EC-Astrazeneca one, posting as relevant to both.)

@MRex

Good news on jab safety: www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55946912. Interesting that the "majority" of 7m jabs to 24th Jan were Pfizer, that suggests the 4m Oxford-Astrazeneca doses didn't come from Belgium, perhaps just the 530k that were "ready to go" on 2nd Jan. (You aren't seeing double if you read the data thread and the EC-Astrazeneca one, posting as relevant to both.)

Its worrying that the az factory in Belgium is careless enough to lose 3 .5million potential az vaccines that were oven ready for az to deliver to eu that haven't yet authorised and won't approve it for their most vulnerable in many eu member states. Maybe some sort of vaccine black hole. Or just mayhe product too problems and all that even a raid confirmed they never managed to produce these mythical 4million doses the eu thought they had and were capable of.. So was all just a mixup en terrible thank god they didn't do anything hasty and trigger article 16 or threaten a export ban to retaliate!

I go back to my previous guess that most failed quality checks and 530k passed. Or 4m just weren't ready when the time came to open the whatever-this-stuff-grows-in, only 530k were ready. Astrazeneca announced just 2 weeks later about the yield issues with that facility.

In a further twist, it now turns out UK actually signed their contract with AZ one day after the EU signed signed their contract with AZ (not 3 months earlier!)

edition.cnn.com/2021/02/17/europe/uk-astrazeneca-vaccine-contract-details-intl/index.html

Also, the Belgian factory - blamed for shortfalls by AZ - actually had no shortfalls.

www.politico.eu/article/belgian-plant-blamed-for-astrazeneca-vaccine-shortage-says-it-met-all-deliveries/

[quote bongsuhan]In a further twist, it now turns out UK actually signed their contract with AZ one day after the EU signed signed their contract with AZ (not 3 months earlier!)

edition.cnn.com/2021/02/17/europe/uk-astrazeneca-vaccine-contract-details-intl/index.html

Also, the Belgian factory - blamed for shortfalls by AZ - actually had no shortfalls.

www.politico.eu/article/belgian-plant-blamed-for-astrazeneca-vaccine-shortage-says-it-met-all-deliveries/[/quote]
Yep. And the wording about supply priority in both UK and EU contracts was in fact identical.

However this thread will now fill up with fuckers who won't rtft and will pile on with their nationalistic frothings anyway.