Canada's pledge to make more vaccines at home is still a work in progress cdnpoli
“I think we’re in a much better spot than we have ever been as a nation,” he said.
Champagne said all together the new projects will get Canada close to 600 million doses a year, but most are still one to three years away from completion. The NRC said it was up to Novavax to comment on the status of its Canadian production plan. The company has not yet responded to The Canadian Press.
Patricia Gauthier, Moderna’s general manager in Canada, said the company is now building manufacturing plants in Canada, Kenya, Australia and the United Kingdom. Eleven of the new projects involve vaccines. The twelfth one, AbCellera Biologics new manufacturing site, will make antibody therapies. Construction began last summer, and should be completed in 2024. McCutcheon said the first clinical batches should be produced in 2025.
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