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Italy blocks vaccine shipment to Australia
By EUobserver
Italy has blocked a shipment of 250,000 doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine due to go to Australia, invoking an EU export authorisation scheme. Australia was not "a vulnerable country", Italy said, and its decision was due to a "persistence of the vaccine shortage in the EU and Italy," it added, The Guardian reports. The move was a "carte blanche for imitators" in other EU states, German MEP Bernd Lange said.