EU restricts vaccine exports

The European Commission has adopted an export ban on some coronavirus vaccines produced on European soil.

European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Stella Kyriakides is talks to the media in Brussels, Belgium, on 29 January. Source: Getty Images

Executive vice-president Valdis Dombrovskis told a Brussels press conference: “Today the commission has adopted an implementing regulation making the export of certain products subject to an export authorisation.

“This regulation concerns the transparency and export of Covid-19 vaccines.”