AstraZeneca records $4 billion in revenue from COVID-19 vaccine sales

AstraZeneca has recorded $4 billion in revenue from COVID-19 vaccine sales.

The company developed its COVID-19 vaccine with the University of Oxford and saw full-year revenues of $37.4 billion — an increase of 38% since last year, according to a Thursday report.


AstraZeneca also announced a pretax loss of $265 million following the purchase of U.S. drug company Alexion Pharmaceuticals.

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AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot told the Associated Press that the company had “delivered on our promise of broad and equitable access to our COVID-19 vaccine with 2.5 billion doses released for supply around the world.”

AstraZeneca predicted in November that it would start taking a “modest” profit from its COVID-19 vaccine.

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The company said Thursday that total group sales would rise by a “high teens percentage” in 2022 but that COVID-related revenues would drop by “a low-to-mid twenties percentage.”

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