Documents show how a biotech giant aimed to exploit regulatory framework and shipping-container setup to send vaccines from Africa to Europe.
While the WHO is establishing a hub for Africa in South Africa, BioNTech has undermined those efforts.BioNTech has become a household name in SA because of its partnership with Pfizer and the resulting vaccine that has been administered almost 23-million times in the country in the fight against Covid-19.
Documents instead show kENUP was “promoting BioNtech’s plan to ship mRNA factories housed in sea containers from Europe to Africa, and suggesting a new regulatory pathway to approve vaccines made in these factories”, according to the BMJ. He said: “Clearly, somebody has been going around Africa saying that we’re going to infringe patents, which is extremely unfortunate since it’s completely untrue.”
It will then develop a comparable vaccine, which, if successful in clinical trials and approved by regulators, it will manufacture industrially.
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