The EU has demanded damages potentially amounting to billions of euros from AstraZeneca if the company fails to increase deliveries of its Covid-19 vaccine by next month.
The European Commission wants the company to pay penalties of €10 a dose a day if it does not supply 20m extra shots by the end of June, a lawyer for the European bloc told a court in Brussels on Wednesday.
The demand is part of a lawsuit launched by the European Commission in an effort to force AstraZeneca to deliver 90m doses in the second quarter of the year rather than the 70m currently scheduled. The legal action is an escalation of a battle between the EU and the company over longstanding delivery shortfalls on the 300m shot contract.
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