Covid-19 roundup: Watch­dog crit­i­cizes EU Com­mis­sion over pres­i­den­t's texts; No­vavax signs vac­cine deal with Is­rael

The Eu­ro­pean Om­buds­man, an in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­to­ry body in the EU, called out the EU Com­mis­sion for fail­ing to search for text mes­sages be­tween Com­mis­sion pres­i­dent Ur­su­la von der Leyen and Pfiz­er chief Al­bert Bourla.

Ac­cord­ing to Politi­co, text mes­sages be­tween von der Leyen and Bourla were re­quest­ed by a jour­nal­ist with net­zpoli­tik.org, a Ger­man-lan­guage news web­site that fo­cus­es on sur­veil­lance and pri­va­cy. Those mes­sages were ref­er­enced in an ar­ti­cle by the New York Times last year on the EU’s pur­chase of 1.8 bil­lion dos­es of the Pfiz­er-BioN­Tech vac­cine.

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