AstraZeneca to supply nine million more vaccine doses, says European Union

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (Olivier Hoslet, Pool Photo via AP)

Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has agreed to supply nine million additional doses of its coronavirus vaccine to the European Union during the first quarter, the bloc’s executive branch said on Sunday.

The new target of 40 million doses by the end of March is still only half what the British/Swedish company had originally aimed for, triggering a spat between AstraZeneca and the EU last week.