France has been accused of stealing five million coronavirus vaccine doses destined for the UK.
President Emmanuel Macron allegedly worked with EU chiefs to divert the large batch of Oxford/AstraZeneca jabs to his country earlier this year.
The vaccines were expected to arrive in the UK but were instead redirected from Holland at the eleventh hour, according to The Sun.
The newspaper quoted senior government sources as saying the “outrageous” move could have cost lives if not for the UK’s successful rollout of the Pfizer jab.
AstraZeneca boss Ruud Dobber had announced publicly on 22 March that a vaccine batch was expected to arrive in Britain from its Halix site in Holland.
But it reportedly never arrived, having instead been diverted to the EU’s scheme.
The Sun said it was also claimed France made a veiled threat to prime minister Boris Johnson that it would cut off supplies of Pfizer, which would have jeopardized Britain’s vaccine rollout.
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