Covid-19 man­u­fac­tur­ing roundup: As­traZeneca de­nies stock­pil­ing claims; Vir­chow Biotech to make Sput­nik V vac­cine in In­dia — Reuters

As­traZeneca has de­nied claims that it is stock­pil­ing dos­es of its Covid-19 vac­cine at its Anag­ni plant in Italy.

Ital­ian po­lice of­fi­cers dis­cov­ered 29 mil­lion dos­es of the vac­cine over the week­end, ac­cord­ing to The New York Times. 

“There are no ex­ports cur­rent­ly planned oth­er than to CO­V­AX coun­tries,” the com­pa­ny said in a state­ment. “There are 13 mil­lion dos­es of vac­cine wait­ing for qual­i­ty con­trol re­lease to be dis­patched to CO­V­AX as part of the Com­pa­ny’s com­mit­ment to sup­ply mil­lions of dos­es to low-in­come coun­tries.”

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