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The news was also confirmed by a European Union official, who said that 29 million doses of vaccine were actually found in one of the plants of the Catalent packaging company, the exact origin of which has not yet been clarified. According to the news, the Italian plant was an intermediate station where previously produced vaccines were loaded and packaged.
Politicio examined an earlier La Stampa report that the newly discovered vaccines came from the AstraZeneca plant in the Netherlands, which is not yet licensed to manufacture the drug in the EU.
The Halix pharmaceutical plant in Leiden, where the vaccines are presumed to have been manufactured, has been in the international news many times in recent weeks, raising dust that vaccines manufactured there could not be delivered in the UK, the company said. it must first comply with the commitments made by the European Union. The pharmaceutical company originally promised to deliver 220 million doses of vaccine to the EU, but as of now, it only wants to deliver 100 million by mid-2021.
The case that just exploded is in many ways spicy, on the one hand, the 29 million vaccines discovered in Italy were likely destined for the UK, and on the other hand, the quantity in question is almost double what AstraZeneca has delivered. to the UK. European Union so far.
Cover image source: MTI / EPA-PAP / Leszek Szymanski
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