The Wockhardt plant in Wrexham provides so-called fill-and-finish capacity for AstraZeneca's UK supply chain, which is the final manufacturing step of putting vaccines into vials or syringes and packaging them. Wockhardt said there had been a partial evacuation of its site after it received package on Wednesday morning, and that manufacturing was paused while the package was investigated. "We can now confirm that the package was made safe and staff are now being allowed back into the facility," Wockhardt UK said in a statement. Last week, there was flooding near the Wockhardt site but its manufacturing of the vaccine was unaffected. AstraZeneca is currently in a dispute with the European Union after it cut vaccine supplies to the bloc due to production issues at its Belgian factory.

Source: bd News24 January 27, 2021 17:26 UTC