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Speaking from the EU summit in Porto, Portugal, French President Emmanuel Macron urges the United States to end its de facto ban on coronavirus vaccine exports. Macron says that stopping the export ban is "the key to producing vaccines quickly for all poor and middle-income countries". SOUNDBITE
The European Union tightens its vaccine export control mechanism to prevent what it sees as an unfair one-way flow of vaccines out of the bloc. SOUNDBITE
The European Union will prolong the use of its oversight mechanism on coronavirus vaccine exports for another two months says Miriam Garcia Ferrer the bloc's trade spokesperson. SOUNDBITE
European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen says Pfizer guarantees all promised vaccine doses for the first quarter after six EU states voiced "severe concern" over delays. SOUNDBITE
The head of the EU's medicines regulator says there is no evidence that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine wouldn't protect against a new strain of the coronavirus found mainly in Britain. SOUNDBITE