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EU health commissioner dismisses AstraZeneca contract argument

Guardian, 28 Jan 2021
Brussels has refused to accept that people in the UK have first claim on Oxford/AstraZeneca doses produced in local plants. The EU’s health commissioner Stella Kyriakides outright dismissed on Wednesday an argument made by Pascal Soriot, the Anglo-Swedish company’s chief executive, that he was contractually obliged to supply the UK first

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