Government to develop £100m Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing centre
by Joanna Partridge from on (#562Y5)
New sites in Essex and Oxfordshire will open in 2021, with a rapid deployment facility due this summer
The government has agreed to buy a manufacturing site in Essex, which was built to make fish medicine, so that it can be converted to produce a Covid-19 vaccine.
The 16m purchase will enable an existing facility, owned by the aquaculture firm Benchmark Holdings, which specialises in fish health and genetics, to be repurposed into a fully-licensed human vaccine manufacturing centre.
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