Updated On: 02 February, 2021 09:52 AM IST | Berlin | Agencies
AstraZeneca will start deliveries earlier than scheduled, expand its production capacity

A patient gets a shot of COVID-19 vaccine in Boston. File pic/AFP
Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has agreed to supply 9 million additional doses of its coronavirus vaccine to the European Union during the first quarter, the bloc’s executive arm 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 before it announced a shortfall due to production problems, triggering a spat between AstraZeneca and the EU last week.