Words matter

[Gibbon]

Maybe not the Commission specifically, but you can blame EU politicians generally for talking down the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine because it was developed in (spit) GB!

Yep, and on the bright side, lots of spare sun beds in Greece. Wait until they see all those (spit) Brits enjoying Mezes & Metaxxa !

[ladymuck]

The reason is not entirely clear but it would seem that the majority of primary care workers in Brussels are not turning up for their jabs:

https://www.brusselstimes.com/brusse...a-alain-maron/

Of the 11,000 primary care workers who were invited to be vaccinated in the Brussels-Capital Region, only 3,000 (27%) showed up for their first shot, according to Inge Neven of the Brussels health inspectorate.

Invitations were sent by mail and text message via the federal platform Doclr, but due to the GDPR regulations, the Brussels authorities do not have control over the invitations from the federal notification system.

“Not many people show up, but we do not really know what the problem is. Since the invitations are sent through the federal system, we do not know exactly who is invited,” Neven confirmed to the Belga news agency.