Italy has blocked a shipment of 250,000 AstraZenaca COVID vaccines to Australia citing an ongoing shortage across the European Union, along with Australia’s status as a non-vulnerable country.
This is the first export ban implemented by the newly founded EU vaccine monitoring scheme.
Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is falling short of its target to supply 100million vaccine doses across Europe by the end of March; currently they have only reached 40% of that target.