EU won't take up option to buy more Astrazeneca vaccines

The EU has opted out of buying more vaccine doses from Astrazeneca and instead plans to buy vaccines from Pfizer/Biontech, since the latter company has better met the demands of its contract, and since its vaccine type has less severe side effects than those possibly connected with the Astrazeneca vaccine.
Photo: CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP / AFP
Photo: CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP / AFP
BY LOUISE WENDT JENSEN, TRANSLATED BY NIELSINE NIELSEN

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