Emmanuel Macron has said Europe will not block or ban exports of coronavirus vaccines but that they should be “controlled”, accusing AstraZeneca of a lack of transparency after the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company said it could not fulfil the whole of its contract with the EU.
In an interview with the Guardian and a small group of other media, the French president insisted it was in everyone’s interest for all countries to have access to vaccines.
He also said the AstraZeneca vaccine, given approval by the EU regulator on Friday for use on all adults, appeared to be “quasi-ineffective” on people older than 65, though he acknowledged he had no figures or official information.
Last week AstraZeneca enraged EU officials by announcing that only 25% of the deliveries would be possible in the first quarter of 2021, owing to production problems at the Belgian plant, and that it could not make good on the shortages by importing from the UK.
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