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Originally Posted by nomadking
Many countries do produce vaccines. Where is your evidence that anybody is being blocked from using any IP?
The EU has set up new sites and expanded existing ones. Their problem is they left it too late and/or are for vaccines not yet approved.
The world's third biggest vaccine maker, Sanofi of France, came up with duds. That will have delayed EU production massively. That was the "luck of the draw". AZ vaccine might have turned out to be a dud, as with Pfizer, Moderna, etc.
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The EU did not order any vaccines from GSK-Sanofi.
Maybe a deal to ease some forms of Indian immigration into the UK in return:
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Boris Johnson sends envoy to seek vaccine deal with India to ease UK shortage
Prime minister’s fixer Lord Lister will visit Serum Institute where AstraZeneca jab is made
Lister and international adviser David Quarrey met India’s foreign secretary Harsh Shringla in New Delhi on Monday to “discuss bilateral relations and outcomes” for Johnson’s planned visit to the country in April, according to India’s Ministry of External Affairs.
Lister, a Conservative peer and the UK prime minister’s special envoy for the Gulf, is expected to travel from there to Pune where he will visit the Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer and a producer of the AstraZeneca jab, said a person with knowledge of the talks.
“Eddie Lister is making a personal trip on his way to Pune to help resolve this,” the person said. “He[Lister] wants doses but the Indian government is stalling because in parliament they are questioning why are we exporting the vaccines.”
Whitehall insiders confirmed that Lister would visit the Serum Institute this week to try to broker a deal on delivery of the UK’s AstraZeneca doses.
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https://www.ft.com/content/0049a35c-...d-e884672298c7