Last modified on Sat 10 Apr 2021 10.48 EDT
Vaccine-makers around the world face shortages of vital components including large plastic growbags, according to the head of the firm that is manufacturing a quarter of the UK’s jab supply.
Stan Erck, the chief executive of Novavax – which makes the second vaccine to be grown and bottled entirely in Britain – told the
Observer that the shortage of 2,000-litre bags in which the vaccine cells were grown was a significant hurdle for global supply.
His warning came as bag manufacturers revealed that some pharmaceutical firms were waiting up to 12 months for the sterile single-use disposable plastic containers, which are used to make medicines of all kinds, including the Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax Covid-19 vaccines .
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A police officer Seven people were arrested after a joint investigation between police in Cumbria and Merseyside. Daniel Bullock, 31, of Raleigh Street, and Tony Miller, 34, of Annan Street, were charged with conspiracy to supply a Class A drug. They were due to appear at South Cumbria Magistrates Court. The arrests were part of the Project Medusa operation into alleged county lines supply. Brady Cole, 31, of East Lane in Runcorn, Cheshire, was also charged with the same offence. The others arrested in the operation have been released under investigation, police said. Following the arrests on March 10, Detective Inspector Gary Stratton, of Merseyside Police, said: “Project Medusa is dedicated to cutting these county lines dead and as this investigation has shown, regional boundaries do not matter.