Covid-19 roundup: Flood, dead­ly fire threat­en As­traZeneca vac­cine plants; Italy won­ders aloud if it can sue Pfiz­er for vac­cine short­falls

As re­ports crop up that de­liv­er­ies of Pfiz­er and BioN­Tech’s Covid-19 vac­cine are be­ing un­ex­pect­ed­ly cut, Italy won­ders if it can take the vac­cine de­vel­op­ers to court, ac­cord­ing to the Wall Street Jour­nal. 

Af­ter its ship­ment for this week was cut by 29%, the Ital­ian gov­ern­ment con­sult­ed its at­tor­ney gen­er­al about tak­ing le­gal ac­tion, the WSJ re­port­ed. Pfiz­er and BioN­Tech had warned the EU and Cana­da last week that their al­lo­ca­tions would be re­duced as Pfiz­er up­grades its Bel­gium fac­to­ry. What Italy says it doesn’t ap­pre­ci­ate, though, is the short no­tice.

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