Just 273,000 AstraZeneca doses have been administered in France out of 1.7 million received by the end of February, health ministry figures show. The utilisation rate for the other vaccines is much higher.
Impatient with the stuttering EU rollout, Austria and Denmark have said they are joining forces with Israel to produce second-generation coronavirus vaccines.
Serbia is donating 10,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab to its former wartime enemies in Bosnia, as several Balkan states struggle to procure vaccines.
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