EU demands access to AstraZeneca Covid-19 jabs produced in UK

A dose of the Oxford/Astrazeneca coronavirus vaccine (Owen Humphreys/PA)

The European Union has demanded access to AstraZeneca vaccines manufactured in UK plants as the bloc’s row with the pharmaceutical giant over a shortage of doses intensified.

European health commissioner Stella Kyriakides told the firm on Wednesday it is contractually obliged to send jabs produced in Oxford and Keele to EU member states.