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Zoe Keller

20 Mar, 8 tweets, 2 min read

#UK Bid to make more vaccines in Britain as the EU ramps up its threats.
Ministers are working on plans to accelerate the onshoring of coronavirus vaccine production to make the country more self-sufficient amid fears of rising vaccine nationalism.
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…

In some EU countries, there are excess supplies of the AstraZeneca jab, despite the supply issues. Decisions by several EU countries to suspend use of the AstraZeneca vaccine on suspicion that it causes blood clots served to further tarnish its reputation.

On Saturday night responding to the remarks from Mrs Von der Leyen, a UK Govt source said: “It’s incredibly frustrating that there are 7.2 million unused doses of the Oxford vaccine sitting around in the EU. The EU has monumentally ballsed this up.

Then they have a pop at AstraZeneca through bitterness, which is coming back to bite them because they cannot get their population to take it. We will be the only coronavirus free country in Europe in August or September.”

Klaus Hinterding, deputy head of AZ Germany, told Die Welt that shortages were "due to the complexity of the production process" but he defended the company's record of "setting up a global supply chain and production in record time... without compromising on safety or quality."

Meanwhile, the UK is pushing its internal production. The new Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre in Oxfordshire (which will be able to produce tens of millions of vaccines a year) is due to open this October after its build time was accelerated last year.

The Govt is also working with Wockhardt, one of the largest generic pharmaceutical companies in the UK, to provide services as part of the effort to accelerate vaccine manufacturing in the UK. Other plants are planned in Scotland and in Darlington.

Ministers are also hoping Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen vaccine to be approved by regulators in the UK ready for a roll out in the UK this summer.
The hope is that the fact it is a single jab vaccine will appeal to young adults.

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