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COVID-19: New warning from AstraZeneca on vaccine supplies sparks EU concern
'Very, very bad news' Austrian health minister Rudolf Anschober called it "very, very bad news" and said his country would receive in February only slightly more than half of the 650,000 AstraZeneca doses it had anticipated.Lithuania said it was expecting an 80 percent reduction in AstraZeneca doses in the first quarter.Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin said "it certainly does have the potential to impact on the wider vaccination programme ... It will disrupt our plans."Some government officials however sought to reassure their countries -- weary and battered by months of the pandemic and already on edge over slow vaccination rollouts."We have new vaccines on the way.