direct to your inbox AstraZeneca is 'imminently' scaling up its production to release two million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine per week in the UK.
The pharmaceutical firm may even be able to go above that from April, its chief executive has told MPs.Tom Keith-Roach, president of AstraZeneca UK, said 1.1 million doses of the company’s Covid-19 jab developed with Oxford University had been released to the UK to date.But the aim was to reach two million doses per week by or before the middle of February.He told the Commons Science and Technology Committee: “We are scaling up very rapidly – and this will happen imminently – to releasing two million doses a week.“We’re absolutely on track to do that and therefore deliver tens of millions of.
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