good one lol
This should certainly help the virus spread:
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Vaccine war’ boils over with EU unveils export ban that could stop millions of jabs reaching the UK
BRITAIN was today accused of "vaccine hijacking" by a furious EU leader as a cross-Channel war of words exploded as Brussels unveiled its coronavirus vaccine export ban this afternoon.
Eurocrats announced the UK has been left off a list of 92 countries exempt from the blocking procedure which includes almost every other nation that's near the bloc.
But EU health chief Stella Kyriakides insisted: "We're not protecting ourselves against any specific country, and we're not in competition or a race against any specific country."
But the new rule even includes a requirement for vaccine makers to disclose all shipments they've made abroad in the last three months to try and catch out those that have sent supplies to Britain.
As tensions boiled over chief eurocrat Ursula von der Leyen accused AstraZeneca of misrepresenting its contract with the bloc and ordered the firm to find up to an extra 50 million doses for the continent from Britain.
She told German radio: "In the contracts, two production facilities in Great Britain are also mentioned, which are intended for the production of the vaccine for the EU. How you manage it is up to you.
"There are binding orders and the contract is crystal clear. The phrase 'best effort' does not exist. There are clear delivery quantities that are in the contract.
"What irritated us was that, unlike the other companies, AstraZeneca very suddenly announced that it was drastically reducing its agreed deliveries for the first quarter and did not provide understandable reasons why. Now we want clarity on that."
But furious Tory MPs accused the EU of trying to "cover up" its own failures with the jabs export ban - as one top eurocrat stoked tensions by accusing Britain of trying to wave a "vaccine war".
