An Australian government source quoted by Reuters on Tuesday 6 April said the EU had blocked the export of 3.1 million doses of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine to Australia.
Asked at a press briefing on the same day, the European Commission spokesman Eric Mamer did not confirm this information. “We cannot confirm a new decision to block vaccine exports to Australia or any other country”, he said. He then referred to the latest figures given by the European Commission to the press,...