Is it health and safety — or grubby EU vs Brexit politics? That’s the guessing game going on all the world today as France, Germany and Italy became the latest European countries to suspend use of the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University.

It comes after the Dutch government said on Sunday the shot would not be used until at least March 29, while Ireland said earlier in the day that it had temporarily suspended the shot as a precautionary step.