* Employees were evacuated from Wockhardt pharmaceutical facility in Wrexham
* Staff at the site - in Wrexham Industrial Estate - received the parcel this morning
* Wockhardt provides fill-and-finish services for Oxford and AstraZeneca vaccine
* It is capable of producing up to 300 million doses of the vital jab each year
* Plant said the pause in production did not affect production of the vital jab
Production of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine at a Welsh factory was suspended for around five hours while a bomb squad investigated a 'suspicious package' today.
All employees were evacuated from the Wockhardt pharmaceutical facility at Wrexham Industrial Estate in Wales at around 11.30am after staff received the parcel.
Wockhardt provides fill-and-finish services for the Oxford and AstraZeneca vaccine and is capable of producing up to 300 million doses of the vital jab each year.
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WNU Editor: This is nuts, but not surprising. There are a lot of crazy people out there. And what helps fuel these threats are conspiracy theories like this one .... Bill Gates says he's shocked by 'crazy and evil' conspiracy theories linking him to COVID-19 including claims he wanted to use vaccines to microchip billions (Daily Mail), or governments like China making claims like this .... China Pushes Conspiracy Theories on COVID Origin, Vaccines (US News and World Report/AP).
There are not that many Covid vaccine plants in the world (see above map), and I trust that every one of them is heavily protected and secured. A successful terrorist attack on just one of these Covid vaccine plants would be disastrous for the world.
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