Need For Skilled Workforce A Key Issue In Countries Using mRNA Tech Transfer

Trials Of COVID-19 Vaccine From WHO Training Hub Could Begin Later This Year

The World Health Organization is ramping up its efforts to provide lower-income countries with the ability to produce their own biological products, such as vaccines and monoclonal antibodies. A new biomanufacturing training facility is in the works, and more recipients of mRNA technology transfer for vaccine production are being chosen.

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More countries will be able to produce coronavirus vaccines • Source: Alamy

In a further move intended to help lower-income countries meet their own needs in vaccines and other biological products, the World Health Organization is to set up a global biomanufacturing training hub in South Korea to complement activities at South Africa’s global mRNA technology transfer hub.

The WHO also announced that a further five countries – Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, Serbia and Vietnam – are to receive technology transfer for the production of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines from...

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