Additional incentives may be needed to attract more potential vaccine manufacturers – DOST

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The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) cited on Saturday. April 17, the need for the government to provide “additional incentives” to pharmaceutical companies who will go into manufacturing of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and non-COVID vaccines in the county.

This picture shows vials of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine at a pharmacy in Paris on February 25, 2021. – Private practitioners in France started vaccinating vulnerable patients between 50 and 64 at their medical offices on February 25, as part of a new stage in the country’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign.

“I think the idea now is to have a certain specific location where the vaccine producers can locate altogether,” he added. She said out of the six companies that expressed their interest to go into manufacturing of vaccines in the country, two were aggressively pushing their plan to produce coronavirus vaccines.

“That is the longer term solution to set up the Virology Science and Technology Institute . It will take at least two years to have it operational and that is when we can produce and look into the development of our own vaccines,” de la Peña said.

 

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