This process is to be carried out in close cooperation with the African Union and the local authorities. BioNTech is planning to send containers to Rwanda and Senegal first negotiations with South Africa are taking place. It is intended that the first modular production units will already be shipped in mid-2022. The aim of the African Union is to produce 60 % of the vaccines required by Africa on the continent by the year 2040. Starting in 2023, vaccine production in the BioNTainer is to begin in some African countries. Ugur Sahin (4th from right) with representatives of African countries, WHO and German Federal Minister Svenja Schulze Christina Förg-Wimmer, who took part while she was accompanying the Ghanaian vaccine commission on a delegation trip. PTB was represented at the event by the expert Dr. The President of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and Chancellor Olaf Scholz also attended the event virtually. The event to mark the official launch of BioNTech’s cooperation in vaccine production with several African countries was attended by high-ranking officials: the Presidents of Senegal, Ghana and Rwanda as well as the German Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Svenja Schulze, representatives from the World Health Organization (WHO), the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the African Union Development Agency NEPAD (AUDA-NEPAD) and the European Investment Bank.
A summit on this subject took place on 16 February 2022 in Marburg. With this invention – the name being a cross between container and the company name BioNTech – COVID-19 vaccines will be produced on the African continent in the future. New approaches aimed toward finding solutions for local vaccine production are being provided by BioNTech through modular containers called “BioNTainer”. Saida Bunk, Christina Förg-Wimmer, Jana Schöppler View this article in: English DeutschĮxpanding production capacities for vaccines is an important instrument to prevent and fight global pandemics.
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