Police on Saturday carried out inspections at a pharmaceuticals plant near Rome where millions of doses of the AstraZeneca Plc Covid-19 vaccine have been held.A European Union official confirmed that 29 million doses were found at the Italian site run by Catalent Inc. The origin and destination of the stock are still to be determined, the official said. Daily La Stampa reported earlier on Wednesday on the 29 million doses possibly being ready for export to the U.K. That would amount to almost twice as much as has so far been received by the European Union. At least some of the doses were produced by Astra sub-contractor Halix in the Netherlands, according to the newspaper.
funnydoggy wrote: » https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-24/astra-may-hold-29-million-vaccine-doses-in-italy-la-stampa-says?utm_source=url_linkItaly Police Searched Plant Holding Millions of Astra Doses Jaysus :pac:
stephenjmcd wrote: » Looks like the original article might be incorrect from La Stampa. Canada & Mexico are the intended destination of these doses according to reports. This lad has been fairly spot on throughout.https://twitter.com/BrunoBrussels/status/1374660866243715075?s=20
Red Silurian wrote: » Does it matter whether it's Canada, Mexico or Britain? As long as it's going outside of the EU that's the main issue I'd think
Apogee wrote: » https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1374396579801563146
funnydoggy wrote: » I haven't much of a clue with regards to the politics of this all, but lol @ them being caught hoarding doses
Chris_5339762 wrote: » 73 and 74 year old parents waiting and getting more angry, I've told them likely early April, possibly the week of the 12th after some back of the envelope calculations. Roughly what ages are being done (in reality) right about now?
odyssey06 wrote: » It does, according to the latest EU Commission guidelines, with Canada and Mexico having less of their population vaccinated than the EU the vaccines are exportable to them.
stephenjmcd wrote: » Not many people even tried it. Then the examiner ran a story based on thishttps://twitter.com/patphelan/status/1373335430729506816?s=19 However multiple people have replied saying its not possible and I know someone who tried it and it isn't. They're saying now you need to be registered with a GP in NI & have a NI health number. It's being throughly clamped down on. You might be able to book it but you won't get a vaccine, you'll either be refused or contacted in advance and they'll figure it out then and cancel the appointment This is what happens when a newspaper runs a poorly researched piece based on a tweet
Don't travel North for jab, says NI, as hundreds turned away
Red Silurian wrote: » Of course yes thanks! For what it's worth I think there's not much point in vaccine nationalism as it only gives rise potentially to mutations
josip wrote: » Wouldn't 29m be an awfully large amount to have unshipped at any one point in time? I find it hard to believe that vaccine doses are being shipped in consignments of not less than 15m.
correct horse battery staple wrote: » Israel signed up to be guinea pigs and are small population wise compared to Europe US have a massive industrial complex and a federal system that can focus on tasks like that, public health is not an Eu competence as we never gave Eu such power (as we are afraid of becoming an USA type entity) eurosceptics want to have it both ways Uk got ahead by being reckless as they don’t care if hundreds of thousands die (highest death rate in Europe) and by shafting their neighbours Please stop with simplistic slogans and whataboutisms, this ain’t the daily mail comments section “mate”
correct horse battery staple wrote: » This is a country whose leader said something along lines of “Russians don’t get Covid because we are better bred” Proceeded to ignore and then cover up until crises at underfunded hospitals couldn’t be hidden even with absolute control of media And where doctors who complained about the handling of Covid died by the droves in balcony leaping incidents The only thing genuine is that Putin or his mafia cronies will want to make money at expense his serfs yet again. Anyone who doesn’t understand how oppressive and dark life is for average Russians needs to go on an extended trip there, really nice people who have no issues talking your ear out over food and drink. The despair at bleak future is extremely evident but it also produces great humour
snotboogie wrote: » 4k doses administered in Ireland on the 21st Hopefully we start to see the ramp up tomorrow.
correct horse battery staple wrote: » Typical reply when it comes to anything to do with Russia Whataboutism XYZ
AdamD wrote: » https://twitter.com/antoguerrera/status/1374726892335546374 EU to get 10m from AZ in last week in March and another 6m in April from Anagni plant How does 100k in last week in March look against the schedule?
Irish Stones wrote: » It seems that AZ have 29 million doses of their vaccine held at a plant outside Rome, Italy, and it seems those doses were supposedly ready to be shipped to the UK.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/world/europe/astrazeneca-vaccine-stockpile-italy.html
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