Wockhardt to supply millions of multiple Covid-19 vaccine doses to UK

Indian drugmaker Wockhardt Ltd will supply millions of doses of multiple Covid-19 vaccines to the UK, including the one being developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, it said on Monday.

The company has reserved fill-and-finish capacity - the final manufacturing step of putting vaccines into vials or syringes and packaging them - as part of an agreement with the UK government, it said.

Shares in Wockhardt jumped 10 per cent after the news in a downcast Mumbai market.

The UK government has also reserved