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Coverage dated February 15, 2022

BioNTech Plans Modular Factories in Africa to Boost COVID Vaccine Availability

Headline from NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

BioNTech has been criticized by some campaign groups for refusing to suspend its vaccine patents and let rivals manufacture the shots as part of an effort to make them more widely accessible.

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  1. NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

    BioNTech Plans Modular Factories in Africa to Boost COVID Vaccine Availability (opens NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth)

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    NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth's feed description

    BioNTech has been criticized by some campaign groups for refusing to suspend its vaccine patents and let rivals manufacture the shots as part of an effort to make them more widely accessible.

  2. MyNorthwest

    BioNTech plans modular vaccine factories in Africa (opens MyNorthwest)

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    BERLIN (AP) -- German vaccine maker BioNTech, which developed the first widely approved shot against COVID-19 together with Pfizer, unveiled plans

  3. STAT

    BioNTech details new plans for Covid-19 vaccine production in Africa, but meets with skepticism (opens STAT)

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    BioNTech disclosed new details about its plans to boost vaccine production in Africa by delivering modules that can be used to make doses locally.

  4. Al Jazeera

    Germany’s BioNTech plans modular vaccine factories in Africa (opens Al Jazeera)

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    The first turnkey facility will be shipped to either Senegal or Rwanda in the second half of this year, BioNTech said.

  5. The Hill

    BioNTech planning modular factories to boost vaccine production in Africa (opens The Hill)

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    BioNTech announced on Wednesday that it plans to create manufacturing facilities in Africa in order to bolster the company's ability to provide more essential medicines including the COVID-19 vaccine.

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