By Press Association 2021
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A man has been charged after a suspicious package was sent to a coronavirus vaccine production site.
All staff had to be evacuated from the Wockhardt site in Wrexham, North Wales, on Wednesday as the package was investigated.
A spokesman for Kent Police said Anthony Collins, of Chatham Hill, Chatham, had been charged with dispatching an article by post with the intention of inducing the belief it is likely to explode or ignite.
Our serious crime detectives have charged a #Chatham man after a suspicious package was sent to a Covid-19 vaccine factory in #Wrexham.
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A CHATHAM man has been detained after a suspicious package was sent to the covid vaccine factory in Wrexham Roads around Wrexham Industrial Estate were closed off for several hours on January 27 after a suspicious package was sent to the factory and an investigation was launched. Global pharmaceutical and biotechnology company Wockhardt, which provides fill-and-finish for Covid-19 vaccines, said the company s site in Wrexham had been partially evacuated. PA news agency confirmed that production at the vaccine site had been stopped but had been restarted several hours later. A spokeswoman insisted the production schedule was not affected. Police officers and a bomb disposal unit were called to the scene mid-morning on Wednesday.
Police cordons on Wrexham Industrial Estate A north Kent man has been arrested after a suspicious package triggered a bomb scare at a factory in Wales manufacturing Covid-19 vaccines. Kent Police said a 53-year-old man from Chatham has been arrested on suspicion of sending the packages. He currently remains in custody. The suspicious package is reported to have been received at the facility, in Wrexham, on Wednesday morning (January 27). A Kent Police spokesman added: As part of ongoing enquiries, which are being carried out by the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate, pre-planned warrants took place at addresses in Luton Road and Chatham Hill, Chatham, on the morning of Thursday 28 January.
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image captionThe Army sent a bomb disposal unit to Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine producer Wockhardt s unit
A man has been arrested after a suspicious package was sent to a Covid-19 vaccine factory in Wrexham.
On Wednesday the Wockhardt UK plant on Wrexham Industrial Estate was evacuated and the Army sent a bomb disposal unit.
Kent Police said a 53-year-old man from Chatham had been arrested on suspicion of sending the package and remains in custody as inquiries continue.
It said warrants had taken place on Luton Road and Chatham Hill, Chatham, on Thursday morning.
There is no evidence to suggest there is an ongoing threat, it added.