The company has 6,000 workers at its Sunderland plant and says production has been 'adjusted'.
Meanwhile, the director of public health for the North East and Yorkshire, Prof Peter Kelly, said he suspected cases in the North East "will be pretty much double" the region's previous peak "within a few days".
"I am concerned but I am hearted by the success of the vaccine and that whilst we are seeing increase in hospital numbers, it's at a much lower rate than we previously had," he said."It has also come at a time when we have been moving away from some of the restrictions and rules of lockdown we have had.
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