Britain’s vaccine rollout could be delayed by two months if EU members states decide to ban exports of the jab later this week. The Sun has the story.
Britain’s Covid vaccine rollout faces a two-month delay if EU members states go ahead with a jab export ban.
The ban, set to be debated next Thursday, would derail the UK Government’s roadmap to reopen the economy.
And according to analytics firm Airfinity, the move would not provide a significant boost to beleaguered vaccine rollouts in the European Union.
Research shows that the number of doses kept within the bloc would speed up European Union vaccinations by “just over a week”.
Yet, an export ban of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine made in Belgium and Germany would delay every British adult receiving a first jab until August 5th, reports the Guardian.
And a further ban to all jab exports, including those from Moderna and Johnson & Johnson, would delay the rollout target even further to August 27th, the report says.
The British Government, as well as Pfizer and its partner BioNTech, has urged the EU not to go ahead with this export ban, warning of the consequences on the world’s vaccine rollout efforts.
Britain has received around 10 million vaccine doses from plants in the EU since the rollout started in December.
Reports say that Number 10 is expecting around 60 million more in the coming months.
Today, the UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace warned Brussels that the “world is watching” ahead of their decision next week. …
Meanwhile, Pfizer has urged the EU to back down on its threats to block vaccine exports to the UK as essential ingredients are made in Yorkshire.
The drug giant warned that production could “grind to a halt” if Britain retaliates, sparking further jab chaos on the continent.
Yorkshire-based firm Croda International has been delivering “fatty molecules” to Pfizer’s EU factories since signing a five-year contract in November.
Pfizer, and its partner BioNTech, have told the EU that Britain can strike back against any export ban by withholding vital materials, reports The Telegraph.
But the EU yesterday doubled down on its threat to block millions of vaccine doses to the UK.
While those most vulnerable to Covid have already been vaccinated in the UK, this delay would no doubt lead the Government into extending its “roadmap” out of lockdown. Meanwhile other countries, which are far behind the UK in their vaccine rollouts, are unlocking already.
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It doesn’t matter. By the end of March, all 9 of the groups most vulnerable to the virus will have been offered a vaccine.
That means the chance of the NHS being overwhelmed in the unlikely event that we experience another period of sizeable numbers of infections is vanishingly small. Even more so give that we approaching the spring and summer months when seasonal respiratory viruses like coronaviruses disappear.
There is no reason to delay opening up the economy a moment longer. End lockdown – NOW.
“It doesn’t matter.”
True. But not for that reason.
The ‘vaccines’ are irrelevant to the main issues of infection and spread – as even the government has had to admit tacitly.
Any type of vax infighting, nationalism, and apartheid is a good thing that will serve to work against the globalist vax project.
I must have missed the point at which they stated that unlocking was dependent upon vaccinating every living being (and I mean that because they might decide it’s pets next) in the UK before unlocking. If they say it will be delayed until August 27th, everyone must know what that means – no unlocking this year as no doubt a new variant will arrive in time just to prolong things for another 6 months.
I was horrified by the amount of debt -where is it coming from and who will ‘own’ Britain.
I speak as as Brit living in Belgium. Things are far from perfect here and our vaccine roll-out is slow but we are already far ahead of the U.K. in terms of unlocking despite numbers of cases rising again. There is talk of hospitality opening beginning May, all ‘non-essential’ shops are open. We have a published road map with dates for meetings for the next stage and, they do seem to try to stick to the plan. I really, really fear for the U.K. I have a home there which I think I’ll have to sell and family and still feel very attached to the British but I cannot see an end in sight. Parliament seems paralysed. Johnson looks like a haunted man and I really wonder who is running the show.
I feel absolutely helpless sitting watching all this. I give money to the various groups helping but don’t know what else to do as I watch my country turn into something I no longer recognise.
I’m quite happy for the programme to slow down. More time to gather safety data before I’m considered eligible and hopefully by then, all elements of coercion will have disappeared .