EU has 'absolutely no need' of Sputnik V vaccine, commissioner sayshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-vaccines-idUSKBN2BD0QIThe European Commission has been criticised for a slow vaccine rollout when the bloc faces a rise in cases and as former member Britain’s inoculation programme gathers pace.
“We have absolutely no need of Sputnik V,†Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton, who heads the EU executive’s vaccine task force, told TF1 television.
“Today, we clearly have the capacity to deliver 300 to 350 million doses by the end of June and therefore by July 14 ... we have the possibility of reaching continent-wide immunity,†he said.
IRL, some EU members are so frustrated with the EU's failing roll-out that they have ordered the Russian (and a Chinese?) vaccine, and the EU is threatening to prevent AstraZeneca from exporting its vaccine until it fulfills its EU purchase contract in full.
