The BBC report said that Johnson will make the calls this week in a bid "to persuade them to veto any proposal that would prevent vaccine exports from entering the UK".
The latest flashpoint appears to be over doses made in a Dutch factory, the report said.
Some of the leaders the Prime Minister is likely to speak with are French President
On Thursday, the EU leaders will hold a virtual meeting to discuss the ban on exports of the jabs to the UK which comes after they faced widespread faced criticism for the slow pace of the
The BBC report said that less than 12 per cent of the bloc's population is reported to have been inoculated against the virus, compared with nearly 40 per cent in the UK.
According to
In a warning last week, she said that the EU can "forbid" vaccines made on the continent being sent to the UK if exports from Britain do not improve.
Regarding the ongoing dispute, the UK's Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told the BBC on Sunday that the EU should not "build walls" which would "only damage both EU citizens and UK".
Meanwhile, EU Commissioner Mairead McGuinness has urged all sides to "calm down" as no decisions have been taken on a ban as of now.
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