It's the 24th Jan. Pfizer have said only the EU is affected and supplies will be back to contracted levels by 1st Feb. What does the tool think he'll achieve in 6 days?
Insofar as AZ is concerned the original orders were contingent on approval. It hasn't been approved yet. As I understand it there will be at least another week delay before it is approved. And there is a delivery lead time beyond the approval date.
AZ have said deliveries to the EU will be slower, though will still start when promised, but haven't said much more though I hear there are production problems in one of it's EU plants.
Gobby has said that "Such delays in deliveries represent serious contractual violations, which cause enormous damage to Italy and other countries,". Well they may, or they may not. And in all likelihood they probably don't. The contract will be for a total amount, I suspect that the delivery schedule will be full of conditions and clauses, not least of which will be approval.
As an aside various EU countries said that they thought AZ should start distributing without approval. The issue with that being that the financial risk on delayed or problematic approval would then be AZ's not the EU's.
Further I doubt that this a contract between Italy and AZ. Italy's agreement is probably with the EU for their share and then the EU have a contract with AZ. You'd think then that his argument will be with EU and good luck with that one.
I can only assuming it's grandstanding by a wannabe.
AZ have said that there will be no impact on the UK.
On the Pfizer 'delays' this is apparently related to whether one can obtain 5 or 6 doses from a single vial. Pfizer say that their contract is for doses so they will deliver less vials.
The UK have accepted this whereas the EU says it's not fair. Pfzer and the UK maintain that the schedule in the UK will not be affected whereas some EU countries maintain it's a catastrophe. I suspect that the fact that it is almost impossible to use 100% of the doses any shortfall from 6 doses per vial will be absorbed through wastage,
I understand there are also ongoing arguments between the EU countries and the EU because it is believes that the EU is not managing either the approval or the procurement strongly enough.
Who knows for sure? I'd say that the UK is far enough ahead of the game that they an flex around normal fluctuations whereas the EU has pushed it to the wire, has no tolerance left and cannot.
Last edited by: No FM2R on Sun 24 Jan 21 at 16:33
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