AstraZeneca faces difficulties in providing EU vaccine

This constituted less than half the sum she promised in her contract for the first quarter of the year, the executive director of this company, Pascal Soriot, said Thursday for European lawmakers.

Earlier this company had promised to offer about 90 million doses in the first quarter of this year.

The EU, which is far behind the United States and Great Britain in vaccinating citizens, has repeatedly asked AstraZenecas to offer more doses of vaccine.

We are doing everything we can to give 40 million doses in the first quarter of 2021”, Soriot said.

Sortis provided no information on the vaccine supply in the second quarter of 2021.

Under the contract, by this stage of the year, the company is obliged to provide about 180 million doses of the vaccine.