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#BREAKING France accuses Britain of 'blackmail' over vaccine deliveries

#UPDATE "The United Kingdom has taken great pride in vaccinating well with the first dose except they have a problem with the second dose"
France's foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian says the UK faces a vaccine shortage

#UPDATE "You can't be playing like this, a bit of blackmail, just because you hurried to get people vaccinated with a first shot, and now you're a bit handicapped because you don't have the second one"
Jean-Yves Le Drian tells France Info radio

#UPDATE France's foreign minister has accused Britain of "blackmail" against the European Union over Covid-19 vaccine deliveries, saying the UK was under pressure because it lacked doses for second vaccine shots
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