Brussels, Jan 30 (AFP/APP): The European Commission on Friday launched a scheme to monitor and in some cases bar exports of vaccines produced in EU plants, amid a row with British-Swedish drugs giant AstraZeneca. The move was firmly criticised by the World Health Organization and risked stoking conflict with the UK just weeks after London and Brussels sealed a trade deal. “We paid these companies to increase production and now we expect them to deliver,” EU Commission vice-president Valdis Dombrovskis told reporters. “Today‘s measure has been adopted with the utmost urgency. The aim is to provide us immediately with full transparency…. And if … Continue reading EU launches a scheme to monitor vaccine exports amid the row over AstraZeneca