France is thinking about stopping the supply of anti-coronavirus vaccine outside the EU. This was stated by the country’s Minister of Health Olivier Veran, reports the Daily Mail.
According to the official, France can take an example from Italy, which blocked the supply of 250 thousand doses of the drug AstraZeneca to Australia. The Italian authorities explained this decision by the fact that the vaccine is needed first of all for their own citizens.
Veran believes that France can do the same if the process of vaccination of the population in the country goes too slowly.
Italy became the first EU country to take advantage of new export laws to stop vaccine supplies. Australia said it was very disappointed with this move, which indicated despair. Australia is just preparing to open its own production of drugs, and therefore depends on the export supply of the vaccine.