Agreed to give 200 million doses to EU: AstraZeneca
Agreed to give 200 million doses to EU: AstraZeneca
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The drugmaker AstraZeneca sparked a controversy earlier this year, telling European Commission officials that it could deliver only a fraction of the agreed dosage for the first three months of 2021. While AstraZeneca had a contract to deliver 200 million doses of its vaccine to the European Union by the end of March 2022.

The commission accused the company of breaching the advanced buyout deal of August 2020, while AstraZeneca hit back, arguing that the contract only required its "best effort" to deliver millions of vaccine doses on time. The EU and UK -Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca has now settled a dispute over shortages in coronavirus vaccines. Ending the dispute pending in Belgian courts, AstraZeneca has agreed to deliver 200 million doses of its vaccine, which already had a contract, to the European Union by the end of March 2022.

Under the agreement the two sides agreed that another 60 million doses would be delivered by the end of this month, another 75 million by the end of December and a final 65 million by the end of March 2022. EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said there are still "significant differences in vaccination rates among our member states, and the continued availability of vaccines, including AstraZeneca, remains important".

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