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 The first 300,000 British-made doses landed at Sydney airport on
February 28 – a month after the European Commission adopted curbs on
the export of vaccines produced in the EU, the newspaper said.
Another large batch arrived on an Emirates passenger plane in March,
well after Italy and the European Commission formally blocked an
application by AstraZeneca to ship 250,000 doses to Australia, it
added.
The paper cited an unidentified British official as saying the
shipments to Australia were never at the expense of Britain's
vaccine rollout, one of the world's swiftest.
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 A spokesman for Australian
Prime Minister Scott Morrison declined to
comment. A second source said Australia was
reluctant to confirm or deny the report.
"For reasons of supply chain integrity and
national security, we do not advise the origins
of particular vaccine shipments," said the
source, who sought anonymity in the absence of
authority to speak on the matter.
(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge in London and
Canberra; Editing by Jacqueline Wong, Sarah
Young and John Stonestreet)
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