Kurz urges transparency in EU vaccine distribution

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has called for greater transparency in coronavirus vaccines distribution to European Union member states.

Speaking to reporters in Vienna on Friday, Kurz said figures showed some countries were receiving more vaccine doses than their fair share under the EU's procurement scheme.

He said even though the 27-member bloc had agreed upon even distribution of the vaccines on a per capita basis, as of the end of June, the Netherlands would receive double the number per person than Croatia, for example.

Austria, he said, without giving any figures, was somewhere in the middle of the group.

He cited Bulgaria and Latvia as two other countries where deliveries had been low, and Malta as another country that had received far more.