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A packet of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine vials. A dispute broke out in January 2021 between the European Commission and the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca AB about the provision of COVID-19 vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic, [1] and, in February, spilled out into a dispute over Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol.
AstraZeneca has cancelled a planned £450 million investment in a vaccine manufacturing plant in Merseyside, saying Labour failed to match the previous government’s offer of support.
The Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID‑19 vaccine, sold under the brand names Covishield [31] and Vaxzevria [1] [32] among others, is a viral vector vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19. It was developed in the United Kingdom by Oxford University and British-Swedish company AstraZeneca , [ 33 ] [ 34 ] [ 35 ] using as a vector the modified ...
Along with the £12m gap in government funding offers - equivalent to just over 2.5 per cent of the entire £450m deal - AstraZeneca cited “timing” as another reason for rejecting the deal.
On 28 May 2021, the Janssen vaccine was the fourth vaccine to be approved in the UK. [34] On 3 February 2022, the Novavax vaccine was the fifth vaccine to be approved in the UK. [35] On 14 April 2022, the UK became the first country to approve the Valneva vaccine. This is the sixth COVID-19 vaccine that the MHRA has approved. [43]
The UK-based pharmaceutical firm, known for its popular cancer drugs, entered the Covid-19 crisis with little experience developing vaccines. And the success of Vaxzevria was far from guaranteed .
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In February 2021, the situation in the European Union due to the pandemic was worsening, as the lockdown continued, people kept dying, and the union's biggest vaccine supplier, AstraZeneca, was having production problems, which caused a shortage of doses.