Southern hemisphere to get first mRNA vaccine facility

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SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) – Covid-19 vaccine maker Moderna announced Monday that it will open an mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility in the Australian city of Melbourne, a first for the southern hemisphere. The project will be based at one of Australia’s largest universities, Monash, and will produce 100 million vaccine doses a year for Covid-19, influenza and other diseases. Moderna’s Spikevax was one of a new class of inoculations developed during the coronavirus pandemic that uses […]