Brexit’s Border Flashpoint Is Now Tale of Two Vaccine Regimes
The different pace of rollouts captures the tension within the EU over its comparatively slow approval of Covid-19 shots.
An anti-Brexit billboard on the border in Newry, Northern Ireland. The border has been a consistent source of frustration in the island’s handling of the pandemic.
Photographer: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images
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The Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in the Irish border city of Drogheda received some more bad news this month. Its supply of vaccine had run out, upending a plan to inject all of its front-line workers.