EU Sues AstraZeneca Over Covid-19 Shortfall
26 April 2021 - 3:34PM
Dow Jones News
By Daniel Michaels
The European Union is suing AstraZeneca PLC for failure to
deliver on its Covid-19 vaccine contract, the bloc's health
commissioner said on Twitter, the latest development in a
long-simmering dispute between the two sides over vaccine
supplies.
"Our priority is to ensure #Covid-19 vaccine deliveries take
place," Stella Kyriakides said on Twitter.
AstraZeneca said it regretted the European Commission's decision
to take legal action and was looking forward to working with the
EU's executive arm "to vaccinate as many people as possible."
The commission said last week it was preparing a lawsuit against
the U.K. pharmaceuticals giant. The commission and AstraZeneca have
wrangled all year, since the company said it would be able to
deliver only a fraction of the up to 400 million doses it was
contracted to deliver by midyear.
A commission spokesman said Thursday that the EU was "keeping
all our options open, including legal options."
The EU lawsuit is being brought by the commission jointly with
all 27 member states.
--Cecilia Butini contributed to this article.
Write to Daniel Michaels at daniel.michaels@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
April 26, 2021 09:19 ET (13:19 GMT)
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