{"id":3399,"date":"2022-02-21T16:11:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T16:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/biontech-to-produce-vaccines-in-africa"},"modified":"2022-02-21T19:26:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T19:26:33","slug":"biontech-to-produce-vaccines-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/angola\/all-news\/biontech-to-produce-vaccines-in-africa","title":{"rendered":"BioNTech to produce vaccines in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Angola. <\/strong><\/span>The German laboratory BioNTech has announced that mobile production units for its Covid-19 vaccine will be shipped to Africa. In the long term, this solution would also enable the continent to better fight malaria and tuberculosis.<\/p>\n

Will Africa finally be able to produce its own Covid-19 vaccines?<\/p>\n

On 16 February, the German laboratory BioNTech, which co-developed the first messenger RNA vaccine with Pfizer, presented its plan to deploy mobile production units on the continent at the inauguration of its new factory in Marburg. The event was attended by three African heads of state: Senegal\u2019s Macky Sall, Ghana\u2019s Nana Akufo-Addo and Rwanda\u2019s Paul Kagame.<\/p>\n

More than a year after the first doses were administered and two years after the start of the pandemic, Africa is still the continent with the least number of people vaccinated against Covid-19. \u201cOnly 10% of Africans are vaccinated, or even 5 or 6% in low-income countries, while more than 60% of people in developed countries are vaccinated. This situation is not fair,\u201d says WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in an interview that we will be publishing shortly. \u201cToday,\u201d says the Nigerian, \u201c80% of the world\u2019s vaccines are exported by 10 countries. We need to decentralise this production,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

In response to this situation, which has been the subject of debate for several months, the German pharmaceutical giant has designed a mobile factory called the \u201cBioNTainer\u201d, which will have an initial capacity of up to 50 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine per year.<\/p>\n

The first models are expected in Rwanda and Senegal during the second quarter of 2022 and the first doses should be available 12 months later. South Africa would then \u201cpotentially\u201d join the production network. It is worth noting that it can take three years to build a conventional factory.<\/p>\n

Training local specialists<\/b><\/p>\n

BioNTech\u2019s kit plant is capable of handling the entire manufacturing process. It consists of two modules made up of 12 containers in total, one for manufacturing the mRNA and the other for finalising the vaccine serum, which must then be bottled elsewhere. Together, the two modules will require 800 m\u00b2 of space.<\/p>\n

Although some 50,000 steps need to be meticulously followed to manufacture the vaccine, \u201cthe idea is to standardise the container, to validate the process in advance\u201d before installing it, Sahin told AFP. BioNTech employees will work there before training local specialists with a view to transferring skills in the \u201cmedium or long term\u201d, according to a statement from the German group.<\/p>\n

BioNTech\u2019s \u201ccontainer laboratory\u201d plan is part of the company\u2019s development strategy, which aims to establish itself on all the continents. \u201cIncreasing local production is essential\u201d, given that more than 100 countries \u201cmay not reach the target that we have set of vaccinating 70% of the population by the middle of this year,\u201d said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO\u2019s director-general, who was also present in Marburg.<\/p>\n

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