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The UK government said it did not take part in an 8 April bid for €1.5bn (£1.3bn) worth of PPE by members of the European Union (EU), or any bids under the EU Joint Procurement Agreement, which was set up in 2014 after the H1N1 influenza pandemic [4] because the UK had left the EU. [5]
A packet of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine vials. A dispute broke out in January 2021 between the European Commission and the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca AB about the provision of COVID-19 vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic, [1] and, in February, spilled out into a dispute over Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol.
The UK has no free trade agreement with any of the EU Overseas Countries and Territories. Greenland and the UK have opened negotiations for a free trade agreement. [168] [169] Montenegro: 1 15 October 2007 1 May 2010 1 January 2021 Goods & Services The UK has no free trade agreement with Montenegro. [170] [109]
To increase the maximum capital of the United Kingdom's contingency fund in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. [1] Coronavirus Act 2020: 2020 c.7 25 March 2020 To grant a range of emergency powers in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic. [2] Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020: 2020 asp 7 6 April 2020
Diplomatic relations have been affected due to tensions around trade and transport of medicines, diagnostic tests, vaccines and hospital equipment related to mitigating the impact of COVID-19. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Leaders of some countries have accused others of not containing the disease or responding effectively.
Favored distribution of vaccines within one or a few select countries, called "vaccine sovereignty", is a criticism of some of the vaccine development partnerships, [39] [42] such as for the AstraZeneca-University of Oxford vaccine candidate, concerning whether there may be [needs update] prioritized distribution first within the UK and to the ...
The COVID-19 vaccination programme in the United Kingdom is an ongoing mass immunisation campaign for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. Vaccinations began on 8 December 2020 after Margaret Keenan became the first person in the world (outside trials) to receive her first dose of two of the ...
UK Research and Innovation also announced £20 million to develop a COVID-19 vaccine and to test the viability of existing drugs to treat the virus. [141] The COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium will deliver large-scale, rapid whole genome sequencing of the virus that causes the disease and £260 million to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness ...