Stick to Your Word, EU Tells Vaccine Makers, as Supply Chains Wobble

Stick to Your Word, EU Tells Vaccine Makers, as Supply Chains Wobble
A medical worker fills a syringe with a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, at the CHIREC Delta Hospital in Brussels, Belgium, on Jan. 21, 2021. Yves Herman/Reuters
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VILNIUS—Europe urged pharmaceutical companies on Tuesday to stand by their word in supplying coronavirus vaccines amid a series of delivery cuts and delays, as hopes for a quick fix to COVID-19 slowly crumble into recrimination.

The world has hailed the super-fast development of vaccines as the best chance of escaping the year-long pandemic, which has killed more than 2.1 million people, anxious to reboot economies and restart travel by the European summer.