Alistair described the last year as something of a snafu. We may have got onto a well managed track, but the EC has excelled itself today.
Acting on information from the EC Procurement lot the Italian Special Police, usually used to deal with organised crime, raided a vaccine packaging sub contractor working for AZ, where they expected to find 39 million doses of vaccine ready for shipment to the UK.
They found the vials, all ready to be sent to the AZ European Distribution centre in Belgium, for distribution across the EU.
You really couldn't make it up.
It was reported in the Telegraph, but it is behind a paywall: I have a pdf saved, pm me with your e-mail if you would like a copy.
