EU leaves UK off exempt list for tighter vaccine export controls

Health commissioner says bloc needs to ensure vaccine firms live up to their promises

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The UK has been left off a list of more than 120 countries exempted from tighter export restrictions on vaccines produced in the EU, in the latest twist in the bloc's row with AstraZeneca over a shortage of doses.

Stella Kyriakides, the EU's health commissioner, said the bloc was not protecting itself against any specific country" but that it needed to ensure contracted pharmaceutical companies lived up to their promises.