BERLIN, April 23 (Reuters) - Launching legal action against
AstraZeneca will not help the European Union secure
vaccine doses more quickly, German Health Minister Jens Spahn
said on Friday.
"It is much more important to me that I get these vaccines,"
Spahn told a weekly news conference in Berlin, adding that the
EU should cooperate with AstraZeneca to get as many deliveries
as quickly as possible.
While legal procedures and liability issues will have to be
cleared up, Spahn said they were "not a priority" at this stage
in the pandemic.
The European Commission is working on legal proceedings
against AstraZeneca after the drugmaker cut COVID-19
vaccine deliveries to the European Union, sources familiar with
the matter said on Thursday.
(Reporting by Caroline Copley, editing by Kirsti Knolle)
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