Fair sized mystery piling up in Italy this morning.
EU authorities went into a vaccine plant in Anagni, Italy....for Astrazeneca vaccine (for Covid-19).
Walking around....they come to this group of boxes (I assume in the cooling area). So here sits 29-million doses of Astrazeneca.
This was supposed to be (so says the plant folks) destined for the UK.
So there's this bit of confusion going on....the EU thinks the vaccine should all be held in the EU....not exported. Why nothing moved on these 29-million doses? Unknown.
There'll probably be a month-long investigation over this, and forty different Italian folks will claim differing views of who said what.
It's good material for a five-star Italian bureaucratic comedy, if you ask me.
I should state this....Anagni is about 40 miles SE of Rome.
UPDATE: The doses sitting there....were waiting on the quality check to be ended. About 13-million of the doses were going to third-world countries. The rest? They were destined for EU member states after the review was complete. A hyped-up EU-mess? Probably so.
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