The companies based in the EU, NOT the EU, have exported a lot of vaccines because the EU didnt place early orders and other countries did. I wonder where the profits made by those drug companies are going?
The main vaccine currently made in the UK is Astra Zeneca's vaccine. They set up plants in companies around the world to make vaccine on a not for profit basis for all the world. There was no plan to export masses of vaccines because it shouldnt have been necessary. The plants here were not designed to supply the EU and are incapable of making up the EU shortfall.
Unfortunately the EU wanted to squeeze costs and when you try to squeeze costs on a not for profit you get things like less experienced staff, plant that maybe is not of the same quality, you have to source cheaper materials. Sometimes you get away with it but vaccines are biological things and sometimes output is less than you wanted. I'm sure AZ - and every other drug company - will be more reluctant to invest in the EU from here on in.
Britain has sent vaccines to these countries
Ascension Island: deliveries began 15 February
Anguilla: deliveries began 4 February
Bermuda: deliveries began 8 January.
British Virgin Islands: deliveries began 4 February
Cayman Islands: deliveries began 5 January
Falkland Islands: deliveries began 1 February
Gibraltar: deliveries began 9 January
Montserrat: deliveries began 3 February
Pitcairn Islands: delivery being arranged
St Helena: deliveries began 11 January
Tristan da Cunha: delivery being arranged
Turks and Caicos Islands: deliveries began 7 January
and to Guernsey and maybe Jersey and Sark. Gibraltar will offer to vaccinate Spaniards working there.
The EU shot itself in one foot with it's incompetence in ordering vaccines, it shot itself in the other foot by threatening to ban exports and now it's shooting into its feet again with scaremongering and more threats.
Where are the profits of the EU based manufacturers going?