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January 25, 2021 The European Commission is working to establish a registry of vaccine transfers outside the EU to understand if the manufacturers are delivering vaccines destined for EU countries, elsewhere. The news is spread by EU sources. Brussels expects to implement the register, called the "transparency scheme", in about a week.

Von der Leyen summons AstraZeneca

The European Union is lobbying pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca to supply more doses

of its coronavirus vaccine to the 27 nations in the bloc and to deliver on its initial promises once the vaccine gains EMA approval , above all because the bloc has already invested in upgrading its production capacity.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen held urgent talks today with company head Pascal Soriot.

EU nations are also meeting with AstraZeneca to encourage the British-Swedish company to ramp up vaccine production and meet its contractual goals.

Von der Leyen "He made it clear that he expects AstraZeneca to abide by the contractual arrangements set out in the advance purchase agreement," said his spokesman Eric Mamer.

The European Commission

For his part, the European Commissioner for Health, Stella Kyriakides, on Sunday sent a letter to AstraZeneca in which he recalled that increasing production capacities, in parallel with the clinical trials of the vaccine, was "one of the fundamental principles of the contract", according to another spokesperson.

For the time being, the Commission does not mention the possible legal consequences in case of breach of contract.

"This letter refers to the obligations incumbent on the company in terms of deliveries" but "I don't think this is the time to venture legal discussions. What is most important at this stage is to discuss (...) to see how they can the deliveries foreseen in the contract take place ", added the spokesperson.

The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, summoned pharmaceutical companies on Sunday on the reasons for delays in deliveries, which affect AstraZeneca but also the Pfizer-BioNTech duo.

The European Commission, responsible for negotiations on behalf of the Twenty-Seven, has signed a contract to pre-order up to 400 million doses of the AstraZeneca / Oxford vaccine.

It has the advantage of being cheaper to produce than its rival vaccine.

It is also easier to store and transport, especially than Pfizer / BioNTech which has to be stored at -70 ° C.

The head of the British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca speaks

"We could have lived a moment like July 4th, or the day of independence, but unfortunately this was not the case, because "me first" behavior took over, said the Frenchman Pascal Soriot, CEO of AstraZeneca, at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

"The pandemic has given rise to a race of speed in the world to access as quickly as possible first the protective equipment and then the vaccines.

Overall it is fair to say that we could and should have been better prepared for this pandemic, but what did not work in my opinion was the collaboration in the world. "" But - says Soriot - good examples of exchanges between the private and the public there were ", as in the case of the AstraZeneca vaccine, developed with Oxford University." But I can see that things are changing and that an international collaboration is emerging. "

Arcuri:" Herd immunity remains in late autumn "

" I would not miss the hope to be able to achieve herd immunity at the end of autumn.

We can catch up on these unbearable, unacceptable and unexpected delays in the running and we will do everything to pursue the responsibility of those who produced them;

neither we nor Europe have anything to blame ". This was said by the extraordinary Commissioner for the Covid emergency, Domenico Arcuri on Rai Radio2.

" There are various possibilities that the vaccines that have not been delivered to us will be returned soon and that from now on, supplies are regular compared to forecasts.

Then it's up to us to recover.

Finally, if any region has allowed the vaccination of non-medical, non-medical personnel and those not belonging to the categories provided for the first phase of vaccination, it would be a very serious thing to pursue, especially from an ethical point of view. "

Tomorrow 66 thousand doses of Modern

The first vials of the approximately 455,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine scheduled for this week for Italy, after the cuts announced by the American pharmaceutical company, are arriving in various regions. Pfizer doses should be delivered by Wednesday while tomorrow should arrive tomorrow. 66,000 of Moderna's vaccine destined for Italy this week. 

Moderna: the vaccine also protects against variants

Moderna said its coronavirus vaccine has also produced neutralizing antibodies against the new Covid-19 variants found in the UK and the South Africa: A two-dose regimen of Moderna Covid-19 vaccine is expected to protect against emerging strains

detected to date, the company said.

Vaccines and anomalies in Italy

The hunt for vaccine cunning by the Nas carabinieri also starts in Palermo after some reports of anomalies in the most important vaccination center of the capital.

The military is acquiring all the lists of who received the first dose of the vaccine.

According to the military, there would have been "postmen" who would have used the call-to-call chat to slip in and get the first dose of the serum.

A stunt that some have even posted on social media.

M5s: anti-cunning monitoring

"Ferreo monitoring the administration of vaccines, especially on advanced doses, to avoid discretionary choices or, worse, administration to crafty ones".

This is the central theme of a question, first signatory Salvatore Siragusa, presented to Ars by the M5S.

"Too many - say the members of the Health Commission of Palazzo dei Normanni, Salvatore Siragusa, Francesco Cappello, Giorgio Pasqua and Antonio de Luca - are the news bounced in recent days on the pages of newspapers that tell of anomalous administrations to 'save' doses of vaccine thawed but not inoculated.