British police said Thursday they had arrested a 50-year-old for sending a suspicious package to a Covid-19 vaccine packaging plant in Wales, whose production was temporarily halted on Wednesday January 27.
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A 53-year-old man from Chatham was arrested on suspicion of having sent the package,
" Kent (south-east England) police said in a statement.
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He remains in custody while the investigation continues,
" she adds, adding that there was nothing to suggest a threat still in progress.
This false bomb threat had interrupted for a few hours Wednesday the production of AstraZeneca / Oxford vaccines in the Wrexham plant (north Wales), managed by the pharmaceutical group Wockhardt.
Employees of the site, which employs around 400 people, had all been evacuated following receipt of a suspicious package.
A spokesperson for the group had assured that this temporary interruption had "in
no way
" affected the production schedule, which is taking place "
at a sustained pace
" to provide the 100 million doses ordered by the British government.
Local police, who had received support from army deminers, took the package away for further analysis.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whose government has launched a mass vaccination program to counter the novel coronavirus, visited the site last November, posing for photographers with vials of the AstraZeneca vaccine before the latter was given the green light regulations of the British authorities.