As the pandemic raged, Canada and some EU nations were slow to get widespread vaccinations under way. Now they are trying to ensure that doesn’t happen again.
Now, countries that lacked that manufacturing ability, or failed to quickly mobilize it, are taking steps to ensure that they aren’t caught in a similar predicament again.
Canada’s Liberal government is providing hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to expand and build domestic vaccine-manufacturing plants, and plans to set aside more than 2 billion Canadian dollars, equivalent to US$1.66 billion, over the next seven years to attract new investment in the life-sciences sector. Canadian authorities also signed a deal with Novavax Inc., a small U.S.-based company, to start makingat a government-owned facility in Montreal later this year.
“This will help us both in the fight against Covid-19 in the medium term, and ensure better pandemic preparedness, [for] whatever may come next,” Canadian Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne said at a funding announcement this month.
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