"notwithstanding the Oxford vaccine which is not manufactured in this country".The vaccine fluid is made at three sites: Oxford Biomedica in Oxfordshire, Cobra Biologics in Staffordshire and the Halix factory in the Netherlands.The finished fluid is taken to a plant in Wrexham, North Wales, which is run by an Indian company called Wockhardt, or a similar plant in Germany. At these sites the mixture is transferred to individual vials on a production line. About 420 people work at the Wrexham plant, and it can produce around 300 million doses of the vaccine each year. Currently vaccines are being produced at a rate of 150,000 a day. British drugmaker AstraZeneca says it will boost production of the coronavirus vaccine it developed with Oxford University to two million doses a week by the middle of January.The U.K. government had given its approval to the vaccine earlier in the week, and had initially ordered 100 million doses.According to the Times, an unnamed member of the Oxford/AstraZeneca team said production was expected to reach a total of 1 million doses by the end of next week.either the UK press has it wrong, or this is more fake news running down the UK
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