BioNTech Covid vaccine plan to ship container labs to Africa

The German firm behind one of the first Covid vaccines has announced plans to start production in Africa.

BioNTech, which produced the first MRNA jab, has developed a “laboratory in a container”, which could be shipped to several countries.

Scientists and workers would then produce tens of millions of doses a year, with the aim of redressing big disparities in access to vaccines.

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