Go Dutch? UK and EU may share Netherlands Covid vaccine supplies to ease tensions

Sources raise possibility of sharing jab supplies from Dutch AstraZeneca plant as diplomacy blitz begins

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Ministers will seek to calm tensions over a potential EU ban on vaccine exports to the UK in a diplomacy blitz this week as sources raised the possibility of sharing jab supplies from a Dutch plant.

Sources said the UK government was keen to offer support and expertise at the AstraZeneca vaccine production plant in the Netherlands, run by the subcontractor Halix, to help scale up production.