Italy blocks coronavirus vaccines from export

Italy has decided to play hardball with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, moving to block 250,000 doses of the company’s coronavirus vaccine that were slated to go to Australia. Italian officials cited rules set by the European Union last summer. Those guidelines say that vaccine exports can be stopped if a pharmaceutical company falls short of its obligations to the EU. The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports.

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