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Europe won’t block AstraZeneca vaccine shipment to PNG, Trade Minister says
Australian trade minister Dan Tehan says the European Union will not block the export of 1 million AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines to Papua New Guinea.
Key points:
- The EU blocked 250,000 doses of the vaccine bound for Australia in March
- Dan Tehan said he received assurances from the EU Trade Commissioner that there would be “no issues” with the PNG shipment
- Mr Tehan is in the UK to try to secure a free trade agreement
In March, the European Commission blocked a shipment of 250,000 vaccines bound for Australia because, it said, AstraZeneca had failed to honour its contracts in Europe.
The federal government wrote to the European Commission and asked that 1 million of the 3.1 million doses Australia ordered be diverted to Papua New Guinea,…
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