Italy has blocked a shipment of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-1 | Financial Times Ukraine news

Italy has blocked a shipment of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine that was destined for Australia, in the first such intervention since the EU introduced new rules governing the shipment of vaccines outside the bloc.

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