South Africa's Aspen Pharmacare is aiming to ramp up its COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing capacity to 1.3 billion doses a year by early 2024, up from a current annual output of around 250 million doses, the company’s CEO said
To ramp up to 300 mln doses/yr by Dec, CEO saysis aiming to ramp up its COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing capacity to 1.3 billion doses a year by February 2024, up from a current annual output of around 250 million doses, the company's CEO told Reuters on Monday.COVID-19 vaccine under a so-called "fill and finish" deal, but CEO Stephen Saad said in an interview that the companies were close to announcing a broader deal for Aspen to produce J&J's COVID-19 shot under licence.
The company is currently delivering 250 million doses of the final packaged versions of J&J's COVID-19 vaccine on an annualised basis and would reach a capacity of 300 million doses per year by November or December, Saad said. "We have to get through a lot of technical details. But all progressing well and we expect to respond shortly. It's not going to be months and months away."
"1.3 billion people live in the African continent so we wanted to say 'One Africa, one vaccine' and we want to have that capability," Saad said.
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