Germany's BioNTech has developed a vaccine factory made from shipping containers that it plans to ship to Africa as assembly kits to ease what the World Health Organization has described as huge disparities in global COVID-19 vaccine access.
Local production to start within 12 mths of site installationMARBURG, Germany Feb 16 - Germany's BioNTech
The factory prototype will be instrumental in helping the biotech firm deliver on a pledge made last year to Rwanda, South Africa, Senegal and the African Union to secure mRNA vaccine production on the continent, where inoculation rates have fallen far behind other parts of the world.
The gathering came ahead of a summit between EU and African Union leaders on Thursday when the EU is expected to reiterate its commitment for a 150-billion-euro investment package in Africa.BioNTech partnered with Pfizer to develop the western world's most widely used COVID-19 shot, branded Comirnaty, with well over 2.6 billion doses delivered.
The facility, dubbed Biontainer, will require a hall of about 800 square metres , local infrastructure and local quality control testing laboratories.
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