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BioNTech to ship mobile vaccine factories to developing countries

Feb 17, 2022
The aim: Making access to the company's COVID vaccine more equitable.
BioNTech says it's first set of modular vaccine kits will be heading to Africa later this year.
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Could relaxing patents help poorer countries get vaccines faster?

Dec 15, 2020
India, South Africa, and Kenya want to try. The U.S., EU and U.K. aren't interested.
A medical worker administers the Pfizer BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine to a doctor at a hospital in Miami on Dec. 15.
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