REFILE-Britain nearing vaccine deal with European union- The Times
Reuters2021-03-27
(Corrects dateline)
March 27 (Reuters) - Britain is close to striking a vaccine deal with the European Union as soon as this weekend that will remove the threat of the bloc cutting off supplies, The Times reported on Saturday.
Under the agreement the EU will remove its threat to ban the export of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to Britain, it added.
In return, the UK government will agree to forgo some long-term supplies of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine that had been due to be exported from Holland, the newspaper reported.
(Reporting by Akriti Sharma in Bengaluru Editing by Shri Navaratnam)
((Akriti.Sharma@thomsonreuters.com;))
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