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Boris Johnson is set to speak to his EU counterparts this week as a row over Covid vaccine supplies rolls on. The European Commission president says t…
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European skepticism

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Stop-start jab rollout
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Stop-start jab rollout

Denmark, Austria and Italy are among a string of European countries that have suspended the rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in response to c…
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European confidence shot

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UK cases in decline

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