Italy blocked the export of more than 250,000 coronavirus vaccine doses to Australia

News team Obaland

3 years ago

The Issue of the pandemic leading to the world economy broke down has to lead to blocking some vacine, due to shortage of the dose in Italy. The Italian foreign ministry confirmed it had blocked the export of the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab because of the scale of the order, arguing that they had made the decision due to “the continuing shortage of vaccines in the EU and in Italy and delays in the supply of vaccines by AstraZeneca to the EU and Italy”, Obaland Magazine learned from an Independent news reporter.

A statement from the ministry added that Australia had been deemed a “nonvulnerable” country, adding that the decision had been approved by the European Commission.

The legislation that allowed the EU member state to block the delivery was introduced at the height of the row between the bloc and the UK over vaccine supplies – with Brussels hitting out at supplier AstraZeneca over its slow delivery on the continent compared to its quick contribution to the British jab rollout.

The move by Italy comes amid a tough response to supply issues from the nation’s newly empowered prime minister Mario Draghi, the former head of the European Central Bank, who was appointed to lead the nation las

“Over the current 10-day period, we will make almost 300,000 doses available to the states and that will be the two distributions of Pfizer and one of AstraZeneca,” he said, adding that the country of 25 million had acquired 733,000 doses of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca jabs so far.

It is unclear if the seized shipment, part of the 53.8 million units the country has requested, impacts the nation’s figures.

The first 300,000 of the AstraZeneca jabs touched down in Australia in late February, with plans for the country to produce the immunization on its own shores by the end of the month, hookup on the next article.