UK recognition of EU’s vaccine effort would not go amiss, says Brussels

Europe could have fully vaccinated 70% of adults before UK reaches its target, says head of EU taskforce

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The UK will be reliant on the EU to complete its vaccine rollout and a little recognition of that would not go amiss, the European commissioner leading Brussels' vaccine taskforce has said - adding that Europe could have fully vaccinated 70% of adults before the UK reaches its own target of one dose for all over-18s by the end of July.

Thierry Breton also said AstraZeneca had agreed that almost all the Covid vaccine doses made in the Netherlands over which the UK has made a claim will stay in the EU.