This week pharma giant Moderna revealed that it has reached a preliminary agreement to build a Covid vaccine manufacturing plant in Africa. The company is aiming to invest $500 million to produce messenger RNA, the technology underlying its Covid vaccines, at the facility in Kenya. According to Moderna, it could fill Covid vaccine doses at … Continue reading “Moderna is Planning to Build a Covid Vaccine Manufacturing Plant in Africa”
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