Officials in Italy claimed to have found approximately 29 million AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses at a facility, while the company appeared to confirm the finding and said they were destined for the European Union and for donations to other countries.
Italian security forces inspected a Catalent factory near Rome at the behest of the European Commission, discovering the millions of doses over the past weekend, Italian paper La Stampa reported. Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi confirmed the report, according to Reuters, said that some of the doses were seized while some were sent to Belgium.
