SA's Aspen Pharmacare is 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 about 250-million doses, the company's CEO said on Monday.
is 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 about 250-million doses, the company's CEO told Reuters on Monday.
“We have got an absolute commitment to 700-million doses till February 2023 ... within a year after that, we could get [to] 1.3-billion doses,” Saad said on the sidelines of the opening of Aspen's anaesthetic manufacturing facility in Gqeberha. Under its contract with J&J it has to supply 31-million doses to SA. It will also supply up to 400-million to the rest of Africa under an agreement with the AU.
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