London, March 10 (AFP/APP): Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday rejected claims from European Council chief Charles Michel that the country had imposed a ban on Covid vaccine exports.
“Let me be clear, we have not blocked the export of a single Covid-19 vaccine or vaccine components,” he told parliament. “This pandemic has put us all on the same side in the battle for global health. We oppose vaccine nationalism in all its forms.” Johnson’s comments came after London summoned an EU diplomat and wrote to Michel to protest about his claim made in a newsletter.
Michel wrote that the UK and US had “imposed an outright ban on the export of vaccines or vaccine components produced on their territory”. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab called the claims “completely false” and Michel later backtracked. But Nicole Mannion, deputy head of the EU mission to the UK, was summoned to the foreign ministry for a meeting to “set the record straight” on Wednesday morning. A European official told AFP on condition of anonymity that a response was being prepared.
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