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Barney Davis

UK Covid LIVE: AstraZeneca ramps up production to 200 million doses a month as vaccines extended to over-40s

A worker takes customers' orders as they sit at tables outside a bar in the City of London

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AstraZeneca is on track to deliver 200 million vaccine doses a month, Chief Executive Pascal Soriot has said.

Soriot, speaking during a results briefing which showed the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker delivered almost £200 million in first quarter sales of the vaccine, said “shipments are increasing as manufacturing improves”.

It comes as people aged 40-and-over in England are now being invited to book their first coronavirus vaccine appointment.

The latest rollout extension comes as figures showed that more than 34 million people across the UK have now received one dose of a vaccine. More than 14 million people are already fully vaccinated.

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