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Delay in Serum Institute vaccines contributing to supply squeeze: Britain

Britain is using vaccines made by Pfizer and AstraZeneca, with 10 million doses of the 100 million ordered from AstraZeneca coming from the Serum Institute.

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The EU threatened on Wednesday to ban exports of COVID-19 vaccines to Britain to safeguard scarce doses for its own citizens.

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Britain is facing a squeeze on supply of Covid-19 vaccines next month in part due to a delay in a shipment from India's Serum Institute that is making AstraZeneca's shot, health minister Matt Hancock said on Thursday.

Britain has been conducting the fastest roll-out of inoculations by a major economy but health officials said on Wednesday the programme would face a significant reduction in supplies from March 29, without initially specifying where the problems were.

"We have a delay in a scheduled arrival from the Serum Institute of India," Hancock told lawmakers.

Britain is using vaccines made by Pfizer and AstraZeneca, with 10