Many of the vaccines are shipped directly to vaccination centres across the world. These are in Kalamazoo in Michigan, which mainly makes vaccines for the US, and Purrs in Belgium, which mainly deals with vaccines for the rest of the world. They are then fed to the main manufacturing centres where the vaccines are formulated, filled into vials and finished.
The manufacturing of raw materials and drug substances happens at two centres in the US: in Saint Louis in Missouri and Andover in Massachusetts. The mRNA vaccines developed by US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and German company BioNTech are manufactured at several of Pfizer's sites. How does the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine work? The pharmaceutical company plans to deliver up to three billion doses across the world by the end of 2021. Once the vaccines are made, they are transported to IDT Biologika's site in Dessau, Germany, or pharmaceutical company Catalent in Anagni, Italy, to be filled into vials and packaged. A site in Leiden in the Netherlands is also producing some vaccines. Supplies to the EU mainly come from the US and a centre in Seneffe in Belgium, the BBC reports. The EU has also ordered 500 million doses of the vaccine. Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid jabs being made Credit: AstraZeneca They are then filled into vials and packaged in the Wockhardt facility in Wrexham. In the UK, the vaccine is made at Oxford Biomedica in Oxford and Cobra Biologics in Keele. About 10 million of the doses for the UK are being made by the Serum Institute of India, one of the biggest manufacturers of the AstraZeneca vaccine mainly supplying to India and low and middle-income countries.Ī "tiny" batch made in Leiden in the Netherlands has also been sent to the UK, AstraZeneca said. The majority of these vaccines will be made in the UK. The UK has ordered 100 million doses of the vaccine developed by Swedish-British drugmaker in partnership with the University of Oxford. It said it is working with suppliers in more than 15 countries. Which vaccines has the UK bought and how many doses of each?Īmid the EU vaccine row, we look at where the Oxford/AstraZeneca, Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines are made and from where they are imported:ĪstraZeneca has contracts with several manufacturers to produce the vaccine, creating dozens of regional supply chains. UK and EU working together to create 'win-win situation' amid jab export row She ramped up the rhetoric this weekend, saying the EU has the power to "forbid" exports.ĮU leaders are due to discuss the vaccine roll-out during a virtual European Council summit on Thursday. It said it would prioritise supply to the UK as the deal with the UK came before the EU one.Įuropean Commission president Ursula von der Leyen then threatened to block exports of vaccines to countries with higher vaccination rates on March 17.
The row over the supply of AstraZeneca jabs began in January after the pharmaceutical company said it would not be able to deliver as many jabs in the first quarter of the year as originally promised. Many will be wondering how many of the UK's Covid vaccines are imported from the European Union after the bloc threatened to stop exports of vaccines to the UK.Īs EU countries grapple with a third wave amid a row over supplies with AstraZeneca, the European Commission continued its rhetoric earlier on Wednesday, saying it would authorise the export of coronavirus vaccines on "principles of reciprocity and proportionality".īut later in the day, the UK and EU released a joint statement saying they will work together to resolve the row over Covid vaccines, vowing “to create a win-win situation and expand vaccines supply for all our citizens”. Words by ITV News Multimedia Producer Ann Yip
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