Reading Time: 2 minutes MILAN, Jan 24 (Reuters) – Italy will take legal action against Pfizer Inc and AstraZeneca over delays in deliveries of COVID-19 vaccines to secure agreed supplies rather than seek damages, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Sunday. “We are working so our vaccine plan programme does not change,” Di Maio said on RAI state
Prime minister attacks AstraZeneca and BioNTech/Pfizer for lower than expected deliveries Italy’s prime minister has accused AstraZeneca of a “serious contractual violation” for what he said was an unexpected reduction in the number of doses of the company’s Covid-19 vaccine that will be delivered to European Union countries. Giuseppe Conte said that
Reading Time: < 1 minute MILAN, Jan 23 (Reuters) – Delays in supply of vaccines to Italy from Pfizer and, possibly, AstraZeneca amount to serious violations of contractual agreements and Rome will take countermeasures, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said. In a post on Facebook Conte said the delays were causing “enormous damage” to Italy and other countries
Reading Time: 2 minutes MILAN, Jan 23 (Reuters) – Italy will have to rethink its COVID-19 vaccination plans if supply problems persist, a senior health official said on Saturday. The country had already had to cut its daily inoculations by more than two thirds because of delays in deliveries of shots from U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc, Franco Locatelli,