Gates says Korean firm could make 200 million vaccines by June

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SEOUL (BLOOMBERG) - SK Bioscience, the South Korean pharmaceutical company backed by Bill Gates, may be capable of producing 200 million coronavirus vaccine kits by next June, the Microsoft co-founder said in a letter to South Korean President Moon Jae-in.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SEOUL - SK Bioscience, the South Korean pharmaceutical company backed by Bill Gates, may be capable of producing 200 million coronavirus vaccine kits by next June, the Microsoft co-founder said in a letter to South Korean President Moon Jae-in.

The US billionaire's foundation gave $3.6 million in May to SK Bioscience to accelerate the development of Covid-19 vaccines. Developed with Oxford University, Astrazeneca's vaccine is in the third and last stage of human testing and is one of the front-runners in the global race for immunisation.

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