Numolux expects the ‘fill-and-finish’ factory to produce 100-million doses a year once it is operating at full capacity
Sinovac Biotech’s SA partner plans to have a vaccine-making facility operational as early as the end of 2021 after the two companies started a Covid-19 inoculation trial in infants, children and adolescents.
The plans add to those of Aspen Pharmacare, which is making vaccines on behalf of Johnson & Johnson in SA, and Cape Town’s Biovac Institute, which plans to produce the shot designed by Pfizer and BionNTech. The Numolux and Sinovac phase 3 study in SA is part of a global trial that will evaluate the efficacy, safety and immune response of CoronaVac in people aged six months to 17 years.
The CoronaVac shot uses technology similar to other established childhood vaccines and so is considered a safe shot. While it may not be as effective as other candidates, it’s a good option for children, said Glenda Gray, who is co-lead of another SA trial using J&J’s vaccine in healthcare workers. Coronavac stimulates an immune response against Covid-19 by using a killed, or inactivated, version of the virus.
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