FILE PHOTO: The headquarters of biopharmaceutical company BioNTech are seen in Mainz, Germany July 31, 2018. REUTERS/Ralph OrlowskiBERLIN: German biotech firm BioNTech said on Tuesday it had secured almost US$450 million in government funding to speed up work on its COVID-19 vaccine candidate and expand its production capacity in Germany.
It will use the money, which is subject to it reaching certain clinical milestones, to finance part of its COVID-19 vaccine development programme, which it calls BNT162.
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