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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Dan Bloom

UK vaccine centre that got £205m from government is sold off to US pharma giant

A UK vaccine site that has received more than £205million of taxpayer cash was today sold off to a US pharmaceutical giant.

The Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre (VMIC), which is being built near Oxford, was snapped up by New Jersey-headquarted Catalent for an unknown sum.

Campaigners branded the sale “beyond absurd” and “short-sighted” after warnings a worse Covid variant could still emerge.

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