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BioNTech aims to start mRNA vaccine output in Rwanda in 2025

BioNTech aims to start mRNA vaccine output in Rwanda in 2025

19th December 2023

COVID-19 vaccine maker BioNTech (22UAy.DE) aims to start production at its mRNA vaccine factory site in Rwanda in 2025, company officials said on Monday, the first foreign company mRNA vaccine manufacturing site on the continent. The German company's first modular factory elements, based on shipping containers, were delivered to the Kigali construction site in March and were then assembled into so-called BioNTainers. Source: Reuters 19/12/23


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