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The European Commission has filed a lawsuit against the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca for failing to fulfill its commitment to deliver the contracted doses of its COVID-19 vaccine to the Member States. "The European Commission began legal action against AstraZeneca on Friday on the basis of breaches of the advance purchase agreement," announced the spokesman for Community Executive Health, Stefan de Keersmaecker. In Spain, the Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, explained that this Monday is the first time that, in a single day, more than two million doses are distributed in Spain. Germany, Italy, France,The United Kingdom or the Netherlands have restricted their air connections with India in recent days due to the uncontrolled advance of the pandemic in a country that has broken the world record for daily cases for the fifth day in a row.