BioNtech ready to ship first mRNA vaccine factory kit to Africa

 

A model of so called "BioNtainers", a container-based production line of mRNA-based vaccines of German company BioNTech, is pictured at the company's plant in Marburg, Germany, February 11, 2022. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer/File Photo

A model of so called "BioNtainers", a container-based production line of mRNA-based vaccines of German company BioNTech, is pictured at the company's plant in Marburg, Germany, February 11, 2022. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer/File Photo.


BioNTech (22UAy.DE), a German company, announced on Wednesday that it had finished building the first "BioNtrainer" vaccine plant that would be shipped to Africa.

The BioNtrainer is anticipated to arrive in Kigali, Rwanda in the first quarter of 2023, according to the manufacturer of the COVID-19 vaccine.

In order to lessen what the World Health Organization has described as enormous inequities in global availability to the COVID-19 vaccine, the company planned to build a vaccine factory utilizing shipping containers and export it as assembly kits to Africa.

 

The first BioNtrainer will be housed at the Kigali facility, according to BioNtech, and is anticipated to become a component of a larger supply chain that would connect other African countries to the mRNA-based vaccine.


Source: Reuters

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