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The UK may pull out of plans to buy a million doses of AstraZeneca s experimental Covid antibody drug, it was claimed today.
Ministers announced an order for the doses from the British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant in November and said the final deal would depend on clinical trial results.
But Britain is now considering a U-turn, two sources familiar with negotiations told Bloomberg.
The UK s agreement was non-binding and it is having massive success with the vaccine rollout, with two thirds of adults now immunised and deaths and hospital admissions expected to be suppressed by the jabs in any third wave.
Officials are reconsidering the possible role of the antibody cocktails, known as monoclonal antibodies, which inject infected patients with the immune cells it would take them weeks to make naturally.
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