EU confirms it will not block shipment of AstraZeneca vaccines to Papua New Guinea

The European Union has assured the Australian Government it will not block an AstraZeneca vaccine shipment to Papua New Guinea. 

It comes after the EU blocked a shipment of 250,000 vaccines to Australia in March. 

The federal government has requested the European Commission to divert 1 million of Australia’s AstraZeneca doses to PNG while the nation struggles to contain a new strain of the virus.