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Aus PM calls on EU to release Covid jabs
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IANS | 07 Apr, 2021
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Wednesday called on the
European Union (EU) to release doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19
vaccine.
Morrison said that delays to Australia's vaccine rollout
were a matter of "straightforward maths" with AstraZeneca blocked from
exporting more than 3 million doses, reports Xinhua news agency.
"It's straightforward maths - 3.1 million out of 3.8 million doses did not come to Australia," he told reporters in Canberra.
"That
obviously had a very significant impact on the early rollout of the
vaccination program, until we got into a position when the domestically
produced AstraZeneca vaccine would be in place."
Earlier the European Commission said that only 250,000 doses of the vaccines had been formally blocked.
In response, the Australian government said in a statement that the Commission was "arguing semantics".
Morrison
has previously announced that 1 million of the vaccines will be
redirected to Papua New Guinea (PNG) if they are allowed to leave
Europe.
On Wednesday, the Prime Minister said he would write to the EC asking that they be exported.
Morrison
was joined by Brendan Murphy, the Secretary of the Department of
Health, who said that the domestic production of AstraZeneca vaccines
was continuing to escalate but had not reached the goal of manufacturing
1 million doses per week.
So far about 920,334 vaccines had been
administered in Australia, short of the government's initial target of 4
million by the end of March.
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