Vaccine deal on table as Britain and EU defuse tensions
A vial of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. / PA
Britain is close to striking a vaccine deal with the European Union as soon as this weekend that will remove the threat of the bloc cutting off supplies, The Times has reported.
Under the agreement, the EU will remove its threat to ban the export of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to Britain.
In return, the UK government will agree to forgo some long-term supplies of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine that had been due to be exported from Holland, the newspaper reported.
On Friday, the European Medicines Agency approved Halix production site in the Netherlands that makes the AstraZeneca vaccine and a facility in Marburg in Germany producing BioNTech/Pfizer shots.
