Joe Biden and Ms von der Leyen spoke on phone call on Friday to discuss their joint efforts in the pandemic. It's an embarrassing U-turn for the EU after it claimed the AstraZeneca vaccine was ineffective in the over-65s. Referring to vaccines generally, Ms von der Leyen told the Stuttgarter Nachrichten newspaper that she expected the EU to receive 100 million doses every month from April. The EU would receive 'in the second quarter an average of around 100 million doses a month, in total 300 million by end June', she said. By February 26, the bloc with a population of 446 million people had received 51.5 million doses, according to official EU data.

Source: The Nation March 08, 2021 18:01 UTC