"By doing this, you weaken all of the world : both the global initiative of the Commission that your own position," responded Mrs. De Block, after that four member States have signed an agreement guaranteeing the supply to the EU 300 million doses of a vaccine developed by the university of Oxford and the company AstraZeneca.

Saturday, the German ministry of Health has announced that Germany, France, the netherlands and Italy had come to an agreement with the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca to ensure the supply to the EU 300 million doses of a possible vaccine against the coronavirus as soon as it is ready.