this week roughly 350.000 but they are sitting on a stock between 600.000 and 800.000. De Jong promise 400.000 jabs this week well they will not make it to 300.000 and 500.000 next week.
will give the week total tomorrow.
We(Ireland) are also holding back a decent amount of doses, to be used for 2nd jab.I’m happy enough for us to do this as supply is unreliable and we don’t want to jeopardise people getting their 2nd shot in the time frame we have decided is right. Is this the same reason for you holding onto 600k-800k doses.Above that though we are administering 90-95% of vaccine brought in within 7 days of receiving it.
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Fully agree with this
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It looks like the US has relaxed its export embargos. It’s apparently supplying 3.7m doses to Canada this week (1.5m of which are AstraZeneca) https://twitter.com/AnitaOakville/status/1376257106794459140
and has sent 1.5m doses of AstraZeneca to Mexico https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1376444070726361088
It’s worth noting that AstraZeneca is being produced in at least 15 countries thanks to the UK’s commitment to establishing global parallel partnerships. I’ve seen Macron and others imply that the US was the trailblazer here in May last year when in actual fact the UK were first to do this a month earlier with the Oxford/AZ agreement.
This partly explains why there are no exports currently leaving UK. It (UK government and Oxford University) deliberately took a different approach by partnering with AZ to set up production around the world, ensuring the (Oxford)AZ vaccine could be made in large numbers at regional hubs to increase production capacity and keep costs as low as possible.
The UK government funded the setting up of the AZ production facility in the Netherlands. That’s why there’s even a production site for AZ in the EU at all.
Can someone please remind me what the rules for travelling are currently in England?
Not far from me was heaving Friday afternoon with tourists, a full day before Wales relaxed its travel lockdowns.
I’m not trying to give these people a pass but I genuinely have no idea anymore. Things have changed so much and so regularly that I’ve just fallen into a routine of “we’re not allowed to go any further than about 5 miles”. We’ve stayed within our local area for about a year now. The kids didn’t leave the house at all for about four months of that 
I think there has been some easing of restrictions as of midnight last night as I heard people talking about going for a midnight bike ride on the radio this morning. I take it that in England we can meet up with other households now, that the rule of 6 no longer applies? Not sure what the limit is now.
For your area it must be a bit of a horrible dilemma. Presumably local businesses need the economy to get going again (which tourism will play a large part) but that means seeing more of us bastards from across the Severn.
If anyone knows, these guys might …
changes today i think
Good article, as expected from RTE.
Refreshing to read a cool headed article amid all the nationalistic driven frenzy.
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Don’t know what it is but Connelly tends to get decent info from inside the EU. I find he is usually fairly reliable.
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Well, yeah. You could simply change “US” for “UK” in that article and move the timescales forward by 1 month and it would be equally true.
Would that make it less of a cool-headed article? 
Explains it fairly clearly.
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https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1375569500079337472
https://twitter.com/EURACTIV/status/1373945063647150080
That last tweet should read,
The EU has "absolutely no need of Sputnik V” and can achieve #COVID19 immunity across the continent by stealing other countries’ vaccines, Internal Market Commissioner @ThierryBreton says.
I dont know if that is due to an export embargo. I think these refer to the ones being delivered from the Federal Government’s stockpile (still at something like 20 million doses, for a product we may never grant approval to).
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Yes, but previously it wasn’t releasing any at all, was it? I wondered what stockpile of AZ the US was sitting on, I’d seen figures up to 30 million right now.
Is the UK supposed to be getting the Janssen vaccine from the US, do you know?
Right, but my point was that the manufacturer has already delivered the units in question to the customer, but the customer was neither using it nor willing to give it away. That’s not an export embargo. It’s nitpicky, but a relevant distinction in the context of the claims and counter claims about what AZ are doing to meet their commitments.
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