The European Union’s two medical agencies were ill-prepared for the protracted Covid-19 pandemic leading to delayed actions and low data quality, a report published on Wednesday said. “Like many other bodies, the EU’s medical agencies were overwhelmed by the force and speed of the Covid-19 pandemic,” said lead author João Leão with the European Court of Auditors (ECA), the bloc’s own watchdog. The global pandemic hit Europe hard, causing over 2.2 million deaths in the European region, according to the World Health Organization. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), in …