More than 150 vaccines are under development and testing worldwide (representation)
Bengaluru:
Indian Pharmacist Wockhardt Ltd will deliver millions of doses of several COVID-19 vaccines to the UK, including one developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, he said Monday.
The company has reserved filling and finishing capacity – the final manufacturing step of putting vaccines into vials or syringes and packaging them – as part of a deal with the UK government, he said. he declares.
Wockhardt shares jumped 10% after the news broke in a depressed Mumbai market. [.BO]
The UK government has also reserved a filling and finishing production line at a Wockhardt subsidiary in Wrexham, Wales for its exclusive use for the next 18 months to secure supply.
More than 150 vaccines are being developed and tested around the world to stop the pandemic, including 25 in human clinical trials, according to the World Health Organization.
Global coronavirus cases have exceeded 18 million, including more than 688,000 deaths.
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