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The UK and EU have rowed over supplies of the AstraZeneca

jab, raising fears of a vaccine export war.

Here are five takeaways about what has happened in Europe

of their Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine immunisation drives

over safety fears is the latest blow in a troubled relationship

Regulators have reviewed reports of dangerous blood clots

but so far have said that there's nothing

The difficulties come after repeated AstraZeneca delivery

made the centrepiece of its Covid-19 inoculation drive.

Initially, the European bloc had expected

to receive 300m doses of the jab by the end of June,

but now it looks like it's in line to get no more than about

The EU's short to medium-term supply worries

The bloc signed its contract for the pioneering BioNTech-Pfizer

mRNA vaccine months after the UK and the US

The EU has also been scrambling to ensure

and finish on the single-dose Johnson & Johnson

At some point, the EU's bulging portfolio,

more than $2bn vaccine doses, will leave it with a glut.

But that's not going to come for a while yet.

that the European Commission runs with member states

Critics say it didn't bet big enough, boldly enough, or early

enough on the leading vaccines, unlike the US and UK.

on developing new vaccines and building manufacturing

European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen

denies that the EU was too slow, too reluctant to spend,

Some have failed to use the vaccines that

Others have held back doses for second shots,

suggests it's better to give one shot to as many people as

A group of nations restricted the use of the AstraZeneca

vaccine in older people, contrary to the European

Medicines Agency which said it was good for use

And now some of that group reversed their position

We in this country don't believe in blockades.

in the bloc's joint vaccine procurement scheme.

That's particularly true for smaller countries who

would otherwise struggle in the international scramble

But at the same time, a number of countries are hedging

their bets and making arrangements outside

Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic

Russian and Chinese vaccines that have yet

At the same time, the EU has introduced new rules

to curb the export of vaccines beyond its borders.

It's a sign of likely disputes to come as countries grapple

to keep production on their own soil for their own use in this

whether Brexit helped the UK achieve a faster vaccine

have done all the deals and the fast track regulatory approvals

it has managed while it was still in the EU,

but it's also true that it would have been

with the joint bloc vaccine procurement scheme,

that national fortunes can change, and fast.

The UK's vaccine rollout is riding high at the moment,

but the EU's relative scarcity will soon turn into a surfeit.

And at that point, questions will be asked even more

are going to ensure fair distribution to the multitudes

of people around the world for whom immunisation still

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