- The World Health Organization has said the B.1.617 variant spreading in India shows signs of being more transmissible, and is now being treated as a variant of concern globally.
- WHO Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that public health capacities must be strengthened to prepare for the possibility of vaccine-evading Covid-19 variants.
- Indian prime minister Narendra Modi remains under pressure to impose a national lockdown to replace the piecemeal Covid restrictions across the stricken country. A Reuters tally shows that India is accounting for one in every three Covid deaths reported worldwide each day. The seven-day average of new cases in India is at a record high of 390,995.
- The European Union wants AstraZeneca to deliver at least 120 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine by the end of June, a lawyer representing the EU said at the opening of a legal case against the company over delayed supplies.
- AstraZeneca had originally agreed with the EU to deliver 300 million doses by the end of June, but has so far delivered only 50 million. A provisional compensation of 1 euro was put forward by the EU while damages were assessed.
EU opens second court case against AstraZeneca
over vaccine supplies
The European
Union wants AstraZeneca to deliver at least 120m doses of its Covid-19 vaccine
by the end of June, a lawyer representing the EU said at the opening of a legal
case against the company over delayed supplies.
The lawyer
was speaking in a Belgian court as proceedings in the second legal case brought
by the European Commission against the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker got underway.
AstraZeneca
had originally agreed with the EU to deliver 300m doses by the end of June, but
has so far delivered only 50m, and has said it aims to ship 100m shots by the
end of June.
Officials
familiar with the case said the lawsuit is mostly procedural – pertaining to
the merits of the issue – after a first case was launched in April, and would
allow the European Union to seek possible financial penalties.
Francesco
Guarascio reports for Reuters that a request for a provisional compensation of
1 euro was put forward by the EU while damages were assessed, but a demand for
real compensation for what the EU deems a breach of contract by AstraZeneca
would be decided at a later stage.
The
European Union wants AstraZeneca to deliver at least 120m doses of its Covid-19
vaccine by the end of June, a lawyer representing the EU said at the opening of
a legal case against the company over delayed supplies.
The lawyer
was speaking in a Belgian court as proceedings in the second legal case brought
by the European Commission against the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker got underway.
AstraZeneca
had originally agreed with the EU to deliver 300m doses by the end of June, but
has so far delivered only 50m, and has said it aims to ship 100m shots by the
end of June.
Officials
familiar with the case said the lawsuit is mostly procedural – pertaining to
the merits of the issue – after a first case was launched in April, and would
allow the European Union to seek possible financial penalties.
Francesco
Guarascio reports for Reuters that a request for a provisional compensation of
1 euro was put forward by the EU while damages were assessed, but a demand for
real compensation for what the EU deems a breach of contract by AstraZeneca
would be decided at a later stage.
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