“We are committed to global public health and while we are still responding to this pandemic, we also want to ensure we and society learn from it. “I would like to thank the Australian and Victorian Governments for their collaboration and partnership,” said Stéphane Bancel, CEO, Moderna. The site is expected to be fully operational by 2024, and is expected to create up to 500 jobs during construction and around 500 ongoing roles across the broader industry. Now, the framework of the agreement announced by Moderna and the Australian government is set to ‘build the foundation to support Australia with direct access to rapid pandemic response capabilities and provide access to Moderna’s vaccines in development for respiratory viruses’. The prospect of setting up large-scale mRNA production capacity has been under discussion over the last year, but without any firm commitments to date. Meanwhile, doses from Pfizer and Moderna are all shipped in from abroad. After false starts, Australia turns focus to mRNA vaccinesĪustralia’s initial COVID-19 vaccine campaign lagged behind other developed countries, with one of the factors being a lack of domestic manufacturing capacity after development of Australia’s homegrown vaccine from the University of Queensland (which would have been produced locally) was halted.ĬSL manufactures most of the AstraZeneca doses distributed in the country from its facility in Melbourne: and while the company has committed to manufacture 50 million doses it appears unlikely the government will extend this contract further. It has also announced plans to build a facility in Africa. The site will give the country access to a portfolio of domestically manufactured mRNA vaccines against respiratory viruses, including COVID-19, seasonal influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and potential other vaccines.Įarlier this year, Moderna announced an agreement with the Canadian government to build a mRNA site in Canada and says discussions with other governments about potential collaborations are under way.
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