UK confident of Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccine supplies after call with EU chief

A nurse prepares the BioNTech/Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine. File Picture: PA

Coronavirus vaccines from Pfizer and AstraZeneca are expected to be supplied to the UK as planned, despite the EU’s export controls and demands for British-manufactured jabs, after a discussion with Brussels’ chief, Michael Gove has said.

The British Cabinet Office minister said the EU recognises it “made a mistake” in its short-lived but widely-condemned move to override part of the Brexit agreement on Northern Ireland, to prevent shipments of jabs entering the UK, in a move that risked imposing a hard border with the republic.