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BioNTech boosts 2021 vaccine supply forecast to 2 bn doses: company
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Jan 11, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – German company BioNTech, which developed the first coronavirus vaccine approved in the West, said Monday it expects to produce 2 billion doses in 2021, up from the previous forecast of 1.3 billion doses.
“We now believe that we can potentially deliver approximately 2 billion doses in total by the end of 2021, which incorporates the updated 6-dose label,” said the company, referring to the additional dose that could be extracted from each vial of the vaccine.
A new factory in Marburg, Germany, is also expected to open in February, and would help to ramp up its production capacity.
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