(Reuters) – US President Joe Biden’s administration on Saturday shut down a factory in Baltimore that destroyed 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine by making another vaccine developed by AstraZeneca, the New York Times reported on Saturday .
The government has put Johnson & Johnson in charge of the troubled factory, the report said.
The extraordinary move by the U.S. Health and Human Services will ensure that the Emergent BioSolutions facility is solely dedicated to making the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine, and is intended to avoid future confusion, the report said. which mentions two senior federal health officials. .
Johnson & Johnson said it “took full responsibility,” confirming the changes, the report added.
Reporting by Vishal Vivek in Bengaluru; Editing by David Gregorio