Revealed: four in five Oxford Covid jabs delivered to EU not yet used

Guardian finding comes as Angela Merkel talks of vaccine's acceptance problem'

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Four out of five of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine doses delivered to EU countries are yet to be used on a patient, a Guardian investigation has found, as the German chancellor Angela Merkel admitted to an acceptance problem" among Europeans being offered the vaccine.

Using data extracted from the European Centre for Disease Prevention Control (ECDC) and other official sources, it is estimated that 4,849,752 of the 6,134,707 doses distributed among the 27 member states have not yet been administered.