Moderna says the new factory will produce the drug substance for mRNA vaccines, including its Covid-19 vaccine and shots for other diseases
Moderna said it would spend as much as $500m to build a factory in Africa that could produce 500-million messenger RNA vaccine doses a year.
Moderna has been under pressure to make its vaccine in Africa, the continent with the lowest immunisation rate. The other main manufacturers of mRNA vaccines for Covid-19, Pfizer and partner BioNTech, announced a deal in July to start producing shots at a facility in Cape Town, SA.
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